Wanted to share my first image of a bird on this forum. This image is really special and close to my heart as I waited close to 12 hours just to click this species. Quite an amazing experience.
Image specs:
Canon 7d + 300 f4 +1.4x tc II
SS 1/500
Av 7.1
EV 0
ISO 400
Thank you all, an overwhelming welcome to this wonderful forum.
Randy thanks for the inputs, i have a vertical with a different pose in the same situation. I chose this compo for various reasons, most importantly to avoid the loss of details due to a larger crop as you said plus I have got into this habit of capturing more habitat along with the actual bird.
The softness on the feathers on the chest was something that even im surprised and not too happy about but do not have enough info.