Okay I am going to say this is a Sandpiper and the two oof birds in the BG are Dunlins.
I am mainly going from color and bill length. Taken along the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia Beach, VA. Sony A700, 70-400G @400mm, f5.6, 1/5000, iso400, -0.7 ec, manual, HH laying in the sand slightly uphill from the birds. PP in PSE8, crop, levels, curves, usm. I removed the rump of a bird in front of the 2 oof birds and cleaned up some of the beach debris
Do you think the OOF BG birds detract from the image?
Peter
Last edited by Peter Farrell; 12-12-2010 at 10:16 AM.
Reason: add info
Nice image, sharp, bang on exposure...a little more head turn would have been nice but nice as is. Dunlins are bang on but front bird is a Sanderling. I might remove the black rocks, just under the bill, though but that just me....