Snowy Plover

[Emory Moody]

Took this one near the shipwreck on the south beach of Jekyll Island GA. As best as I can tell, this is the first sighting of a Snowy in GA since 2000. Cropped slightly in Photoshop

Nikon D300
Nikkor 600 F/4 + TC14E
ISO 200
F/5.6 @ 1/1600 sec

[Isak Pretorius]

Lovely low angle and niiice light! Nit would be the OOF piece in front, but I'd like to have this in my collection!

[Jody Melanson]

Very nice colours and love the look. A little tight in the frame and as mentioned the OOF foreground stuff are my only nits. Ooops, notice a little sharpening halo around the beak too.

[Marko Matesic]

I like low angle,BG and catchlights ....

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great find and details. The OOF sand (?) in the foreground is a bit distracting. Maybe a slightly higher angle would have helped.

[cjhockett]

Emory,
Nice capture, feather detail, catch light and head turn. As you discovered, snowys are always setting down in a little depression, so elevating your shooting angle will help get ride of the foreground blur. Nice one.