Purple Gallinule. Shark Valley. Everglades NP

I will admit to having an unaccountable fondness for the Purple Gallinule. It is, as I may have said before, just such an outrageous bird. I was nothing short of delighted to find so many in the Everglades when we visited last month. I had only ever seen two before…one male, years ago, and one female a few years later. The Everglades filled me up, for the moment, with Purple Gallinule. 🙂

I like this shot particularly, as it shows just about every interesting aspect of the bird…and shows it in its natural habitat.

Sony HX400V at 1200mm equivalent field of view. Shutter preferred. 1/640th @ ISO 250 @ f6.3. Processed in Lightroom on my Surface Pro 3 tablet.