My favorite time of the year for bird photography is the shorebird fall migration. These guys start it early, with this individual photographed on July 20th...hardly fall by any means by the calendar. Shorebirds breeding in the far north start moving back south very soon after the young are born (which will follow suit later on, with beautiful fresh juvenile plumages). Here is one of those adults, sporting its tell-tale end-of-season "worn plumage".
To me there is nothing like laying prone on the wet sand, or mud, or shallow water photographing the various species of shorebirds, and the action will pick up during the next few weeks/months...bring on the migration!
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/400s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, FF, usual eye work, darkened the very brightest whites (burn tool), enhanced the yellow eyering (dodge and sponge tools).
Adult Semipalmated Plover.
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