Masked Lapwing

Taken 9th June in the morning, side-lit; 30D with 70-200mm f4. The first 3 were of one bird and the last 2 were of the other one, who was closer to the road (all taken from the car).

Post-processing (levels, contrast, saturation; crop and resize for web; sharpening) was done in Elements 5 on an uncalibrated monitor.

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What's that noise?

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2. What are you doing?

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3. Can't you see you interrupted my meal?

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4. Just ignore her and she'll go away.... I hope

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5. If I stare long enough she'll crack and run screaming for the hills...

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Before this day, the following two photos had been the only ones I had managed to capture (mods can remove if it's too many photos).

Taken with the high-beam of a car, built-in flash, 30D with 70-200mm f4; on a pretty dark night..

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Great shots of an unusual bird. Nice job on the whites.

I have never seen this bird in my life ... thanks for sharing.

Great shots, very good detail on the face and as Phil has said the whites have been captured well.