Well, it is a actually the new “man-made-material” boardwalk out behind the hawk-watch platform at Lighthouse State Park in Cape May, NJ. It was a dull afternoon with heavy clouds and the Yellow-rumped Warblers were coming down onto the boardwalk to pick up either seeds or bugs…I could not see which. Then they would hop back up to the lower branches of the trees next to the boardwalk. Up and down. Down and up.

I like the feet here. You don’t often get to see a small bird’s feet in this kind of detail. The subdued light, and the plain grey background, really brings out the remaining color in this fall plumaged bird.

Canon SX50HS. Program with auto iContrast and Shadow Fill.  1800mm equivalent field of view (full zoom plus 1.5x digital tel-converter function). f6.5 @ 1/160th @ ISO 100. Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.