Most of the times we dream of far away places with exotic species and we tend to bypass and ignore the humble beauties that we see every day, and are everywhere we look. The can be beautiful too, and can be captured, as in this case, in a day of very flat light, totally cloudy, at ISOs that would make us frown.
So, we usually don't have themes in Avian, but I want to honor our common species and suggest you share a nice image of a bird that you normally don't look at because it is everywhere and almost a nuisance. It's easy to make a good image of an exotic bird. Let's train and work :) and make a common species look good!
Time: 3:31:46 PM
Model: Canon EOS 7D
Lens (mm): 500 (thanks Richard W)
ISO: 2000
Aperture: 5.6
Shutter: 1/400
hand held