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If you look closely you can actually see the semi-palm between the toes of this winter plumaged Semiplamated Plover (perhaps a juvenile). After a several days of cloud and rain, as soon as the sun came out yesterday, I grabbed the cameras and headed for the beach. I am still working on final test shots for the comparison of the new Canon SX60HS and the Sony HX400V…and I wanted to test the Sony with the in-camera sharpness turned down. I have also switched to shutter preferred for my long telephoto bird shots and I wanted to see how that mode works in good light. Geeky. I know. So the very cooperative plovers at the water’s edge were a nice surprise! There were three, and they were just slowly working back and forth near high tide on the rocks of the road embankment where it crosses Back Creek. The late afternoon sun was a treat as well.

Sony HX400V at 1200mm equivalent. Custom tuned Landscape Creative Style (+1 Saturation, -1 Sharpness), -1/3 EV exposure compensation. Shutter preferred. 1/640th @ ISO 160 @ f6.3. Cropped slightly for scale (so you could see the semi-palm). Processed in Lightroom on my Surface Pro 3 tablet. And honestly, this is about as good as it gets from a superzoom P&S camera!