I love the image and the SH and the REFL. Overall too dark. Suggestion: lighten it by pulling up the curve and then lose the 2nd REFL (the top of the head along the bottom frame edge.)
Though the habitat is wrong this looks a lot like a winter adult long-billed based on impression: heavy barring and chevrons below, darker grey than adult winter short-billed, and bulkiness but I am far from positive. Did you hear the bird call?
Everything is square to the back of the camera which works well with good REFL images.
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Nice Dowitcher! Agree with the dark side:) I thoroughly enjoyed shooting the shore birds while in Florida last spring, looking forward to getting some as nice as this. They always seem to standing just a little a way from you. Looking forward to more. Gary.
Congrats to catching a dowitcher with its bill not immersed in the water/mud or tucked back in its back feathers. :) Also, there seems to be a fraction of a degree head tilt towards you that really helps. Sharpness is great too though I agree with the image being too dark.
I agree with Artie as it does look a bit underexposed but I think this can be fixed rather easily in PS as mentioned the detail is there and would look great reworked.
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