Squawk!

I caught several frames of this Great Blue Heron as it flew by the boat, but it only had its bill open in this one.  I really think the view of the tongue is cool as I've never seen it this clearly before, though part of it is still hidden.  I had a hard time level in this image as the edge of the water isn't really level.  I started out leveling it, but then the Heron was falling out of the sky.  Finally I compromised by drawing a line from the tip of the feet to the eye and using that as my level-pretty arbitrary.  One of these days they'll put the built-in level info from the camera in EXIF and let us do it properly.

7D2, Sigma 150-600 C @ 468 mm, handheld from boat, f/8, 1/4000, iso 800, manual exposure.  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  Cropped to 13.7 MP before resizing (mostly for straightening, but I took some extra off the left and bottom).  Taken at 6:01 PM on March 22nd at a small mixed rookery on an island of the St Johns river.

Your comments and criticisms are always appreciated.

Thanks,