Canon 1D Mark 4 With EF 500mm f4
1/320 sec, F7.1, ISO 500
Just cropped for composition, cleaned up with content aware healing, adjusted wb & contrast and sharpened
Awesome scene, I'd love to photograph a bittern like this!! I like the "stepping out" pose. Personally I'd prefer a less square comp. I thought the colours were off, so I loaded into PS and found that you posted in RGB...you should post in sRGB for web as most of us won't see the colours as you intend them to be. Here I simply converted to sRGB and reposted (you won't likely see a difference but many will). Much better now IMO... ;-)