Painted Snipe (Male)

[Mangru Minz]

Most of the time this bird seen together (male & Female) very close to each other, never seen alone.
Image clicked at Ayodhya Nagar lake, Bhopal.
Canon 7D, ef 400 f/4 DO with 1.4x Tc II at f/7.1 ,1/50 sec, Iso-400, Ec-0, FF image.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice.Light seems low. like the low angle and eye contact, the grey BG highlights the colours on the bird. If light supports more DOF to get the marshy habitat of the bird into focus wud been great.

TFS
Roopak

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice image. Agree with the comments from Roopak. Thanks for sharing.

[Rajeev Khanna]

This is a female bird, painted snipes show reverse sexual dimorphism

[Mangru Minz]

Thanks Rajeev for identification, I have assumed general observation of birds such as colors and size incomparision without refering to birds guide ,hence this had happened . Learning from this thread : No further asumption .

Thanks Mrudul and roopak , It was too late around 6:48 PM , I'm never happy with the ISO performance of my gear , in that situation increasing DOF leads to further slow down the speed. I'll try with greater DOF sometimes if light will be better .
Thanks again.