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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunbird24" data-source="post: 3305107" data-attributes="member: 103847"><p>John, the pictures were taken in the evening with a low sun but the bird was in a shadowy depression ant the tide had gone out so it was wading in soft grey mud. The pictures were taken at 6:50pm local time so perhaps an hour before sunset. I used a 400mm lens at max zoom on a 1.6x body so effectively 640mm, 1/2000at f5.6,and the camera auto selected ISO 5000 so yes, the light was poor. The original pictures are raw so too big to post here , or anywhere else and I had to cut them down further to post here, so a lot has been lost to processing, 25-30 MB down to 40-800 KB loses a lot of info. I do see mud on the bill and legs and maybe a hint of yellow underneath, particularly on the third picture. Also I did not consider the tail length to be overly long, a lot of Spotteds have long tail projections on pictures, not seen a real one. If I posted better pictures on OneDrive or e-mailed them would that help?</p></blockquote><p></p>