Cinnamon Bittern...

The surprise package.... we were heading back home after our regular Sunday Morning Birding. That morning was very very special as we saw so many species of birds that day.
To list a few are
1. Black Bittern,
2. Common Kingfisher
3. White breasted Kingfisher
4. Open Billed Stork
5. Cattle Egret
6. Cotton Pigmy Goose
7. Spoon Billed Heron
8. River Tern
9. Reef Egret
10.Curlew
11. Sparrow Lark
12. Purple Heron
13. Pheasant Tail Jacana
14. White breasted water Hen
15. Red Nacked Falcon.
16. Black Winged Stilt
17. Lesser whistling Duck
18.Little Grebe

7DMii with 400mm
AV 5.6
TV 1/640
ISO 400
Hand Held, Learning AF system of 7D MII

Lovely sighting. Beautiful bird.You seemed to have a virtual birds paradise close to home.The focus seems to have locked on to the blades of grass in front of the bird.Thanks for sharing.

Nice you got this skulker. not an easy catch. where was this?
TFS
Roopak

Thanks Roopakji, we were looking at the purple herons fighting at far distance. And this fella came out of grass near by road at Dabhari village near surat, Gujarat, Its large paddy field intermingled with grass land.

I was experimenting with different focus point selection methods & types of 7DMII so yes out of some seven -eight odd images this was much better.... learning in progress.

Good to see this bird. Which AF point were you using for this shot? When the bird is small in the frame, the AF point covers a large area and the focus is not precise. You need to carefully study it to understand the limitations. You could have bumped up the ISO to use one stop narrow aperture for a higher depth of field. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

New camera :)? Congrats..!! Nice environment composition. Look forward to more. Thanks for sharing.

This is an excellent photograph....great sighting too....can you mention the place?

Wonderful image............