Winter colours ...Pigeon guillemot

[Suzanne Huot]

We know winter is on the way when we find these little Guillemots getting their winter plumage ,Taken a couple of weeks ago while checking out what birds where beginning to turn up in our local waters.Photographed from our little tin boat

Canon Eos Mk 11 1 D
canon 100-400 mm lens
A.v 5.6
T.v 1/2500
Exposure 0
ISO 400

Critiquing and comments appreciated
Thank you for looking

[Harshad Barve]

Lovely image Suzanne , liked the compo , expo and details
I dont know this spcies but image looks bit dark on monitor
TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice BG and head turn, like the feather details, I would also brighten a little bit.

[Paul Randall]

A touch brighter and a little bit of sharpening around the head would bring this image out a bit.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the look-back pose, calm water and exposure control. I wish the body were angled toward you more and would selectively sharpen the head. I think you could have stopped down to f/8 for wider DOF.