Ah, fall migration is slowly but surely starting to gain momentum. That can only mean shorebirds! This Lesser Yellowlegs (my first migrating shorebird sighting of this season WOOHOO!!) was calmly foraging for food when it stretched its wing. This is a pretty common behaviour with many of the shorebirds, and with patience the odds are very good to observe.
The sun was just starting to shine on the background reeds, and this extra brightness caused the subject to be exposed quite dark (if wanting to prevent said background to be blown)...hence the need for lots of flash to light it correctly.
Canon 7D + 100-400L @400mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/6.3, ISO 800, 580 EX II flash @ +2.7 FEC (histogram checked), handheld (lying in muck / duck dung mixture), about 75% FF.







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