I'm still on my crack-of-dawn kick for photographing birds. The advantage here is of course, the unusual colours.

Here are a couple of mallards pass before the morning's first light.

Canon 7D with the 500L f4 lens handheld @ 1/500, f4, ISO 800, +2 1/3 exposure compensation.

Formatted to my usual 8 X 16 frame for exposition purposes.

Cheers,

Mike