Hi there - recently back from a trip to the northern Yellow Sea in China, where I spent a week with a grad student of mine working on Bar-tailed Godwits on migration. We spent a lot of time out on the tidal flats with some tens of thousands of birds moving in and out with the tide, including some big flocks of Great Knots (shown here). This is a Russian-breeding species that migrates through Asia to Australia and SE Asia, and is probably the closest relative of the Surfbird that many of you will be more familiar with. I had my 500 mm lens with me, and spent many awkward hours with it hanging around my neck as I used the scope, periodically changing them over while trying not to drop either into the mud. I was pretty sore after the first day, but improved thereafter.
Specs:
Canon 7D + 500 mm
ISO250, F6.3, 1/1300 sec, exposure +1/3 stop
Handheld
Unsharp mask + a tiny brightness tweak in levels. Would you do more?
A fairly big crop - c. 20% of frame.
Cheers, Phil






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