This young bird munches on its prey. The bird is covering its food to protect it against his siblings (called mantling, as photog friend Chuck Kling reminded me recently) who are more than eager to make off with it!

As usual when with these birds, the lighting situation was very poor. I unfortunately had to play clone-and-burn with portions of the background to remove overexposed white-patches that appeared through a few of the leaves and that were made worse by brightening up the image. As I don't normally do much background corrections, I can use more practice and experience.

Due to low light, the green-yellow reflections and tinting of the image was very strong. Although I did manage to reduce it, some still remains. My Canon 5D Mark III camera is a godsend.

Cheers,

Mike