I am dropping way back to May for this shot of a Louisiana Waterthrush from Magee Marsh in northern Ohio. I still have a wealth of unshared images from my 10 days at The Biggest Week in American Birding. This was taken the last day I was there. After working a full day at our respective booths (that is the ZEISS booth for me), and then packing the booths, my friend Roy Halpin and I dragged our weary bodies out to the boardwalk for one last pass. We were rewarded with some of the best photo ops of the week. 🙂 That included this very cooperative Louisiana Waterthrush. We watched and photographed it for a good 10 minutes as it worked this partially submerged log: perfect habitat for a Waterthrush, and a perfect setting for our images.

Not only is it a bird I seldom see, but it certainly closer and more cooperative than any waterthrush I have ever encountered. And it was not the only good bird of that last pass on the Magee Marsh boardwalk!

Canon SX50HS. 1200mm equivalent field of view. Program with my usual modifications. f6.5 @ 1/400th and 1/500th @ ISO 800. Processed in Lightroom.