Least Bittern

[Jim Neiger]

Osceola County, FL - 1D Mark IV, 500mm+1.4xTC, hand held from boat, manual exposure, 1/2000, F6.3, ISO 800

[stuart wanuck]

Great image as usual

[Bill Dix]

Super image, Jim. I love just a hint of reedy habitat in the BG. And the bird's colors are amazing -- do they really have that much rufous color? If so, Sibley doesn't do them justice. Wonderful as usual.

[pietipeppie]

Colorful and sharp image. I would be interest to know, how much You have cropped and used noise reduction, because noise (mainly self-bird) is visible.

Anyway, great aviation image

ppie
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[Jim Neiger]

Super image, Jim. I love just a hint of reedy habitat in the BG. And the bird's colors are amazing -- do they really have that much rufous color? If so, Sibley doesn't do them justice. Wonderful as usual.

Bill,

The vivid colors are due to the bittern's breeding plumage.

[Jim Neiger]

Colorful and sharp image. I would be interest to know, how much You have cropped and used noise reduction, because noise (mainly self-bird) is visible.

Anyway, great aviation image

ppie
www.ppie.net

Small crop with no noise reduction on the bird.

[John Guastella]

Excellent wing angle; I really like the blurred bullrush in the BG, which gives a sense of the environment without being overpowering. There is a bit of noise in the image, mainly on the bird, but it's not too bad. The bird's head seems to be slightly turned away from the viewer (I'm basing this on the tip of the bill which seems to be OOF...). Also, looks like there is a tiny second catchlight.

John

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Jim, this is an amazing shot....so hard to get such clean shot of this species. Well done as usual.

[Munish Kaushik]

Beautiful shot.

love the colors, freeze & background. Agree with john on oof beak (just a bit though)

Regards,
Munish Kaushik
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[arash_hazeghi]

Super Jim, love the light and sharp details. I would run some chroma NR. sweet light and sweet wing positions. see you soon

[Joe Senzatimore]

Light is outstanding as is the detail and composition.

[Troy Lim]

Nice in flight shot, although the wings look sharper than the head. Sweet light.

[Marina Scarr]

This is a truly outstanding capture. Love the details in the talons and the wings and the BG is extremely complementary to the bird. Yes, the head is turned ever so slightly away, but a winner nonetheless.

[Randy Rimland]

off the charts amazing
and I have never see one IF

[Dan Avelon]

nice light and wing position but the image is a bit noisy and also looks like the focus was on the wing rather than head.

[Heather Forcier]

Love it, Jim! :) What a beautiful view of this shy bird.