Small Pratincole

[Amit Gupta]

Small Pratincole, Nal Saroval, Gujarat. Feb 2011.

Was able to approach this bird to reasonably close, also being my first sighting of the bird.

EOS 40D + 70-300IS handheld; about 70% of original

1/400; ISO 200 @ f/8.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Cute bird. How many of these did you sight? Any blurring done in post processing? Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

The eye contact is nice. If possible lying flat on the ground helps to get the background blurred. Look forward to more from Nal Sarovar. Thanks for sharing.