Very early morning with clouded sunrise found this beauty preening at eye level. I went to 1600, exposed all the way to the right, locked down the Mongoose head as this beauty raised it's head to greet me. I could not get high enough to eliminate the light strip at the top, but I liked the one feather (clearly his/hers) left from preening. One round of NR and cropped to square for composition. 1DMKIIN 400DO 1.4xtc ISO 1600 F8@1/60
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