here is the same bird a fraction of a second later.
And a final frame as the bird flies back out against the blue sky.
It was hard to know where to point the camera in the park, especially at end of day in the area aptly called the 'flight deck'. After a number of so-so images of birds on the ground I was back to playing with birds in flight, and eventually racked the zoom all the way to the wide end to get a wider aperture. The sun was almost down and the sky colors here are slightly accentuated, as is the foreground brightness to just show a few of the many birds also on the ground.
