Wilson's Plover. One of the last images I took at Ft. Desoto, and one of very, very few that I was not lying down on the beach for shorebirds...wish I was!! I was photographing terns when this guy suddenly showed up with a full crab in it's bill. When I slowly crouched down it very nearly spooked away so I held my position and snapped a few. I was able to later make my way down flat but by that time the whole meal was consumed. I still like the single claw here and thought worthy to keep :).
Canon 40D + 100-400L @ 400mm, manual, 1/1600s., f/8, ISO 400, -0.7 EC metered off water, fill @ -.07 FEC, handheld, ~70% full-frame.
You were pretty low and the single claw is great. If you had been a yard or so to your left the image would have been better as the bird is angled ever-so-slightly away from you.
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