Marching Black-necked Stilt Chick- Click image to view larger!

Beautifully done - and with a 500mm lens with 2X extender!  I presume you used a tripod.  For having all that focal length you placed it with compositional precision.  The chick is placed by the rule of thirds and you have left him the greater distance ahead to walk through.  I can also imagine the alternate, in which you allow the full reflection of the chick to also show by using a vertical composition.  I rather like the stiff-legged look of the little fellow.

Those of us with wildlife and biological interests always appreciate having the geographical region included in the basic information.  I know this bird occurs over a good part of the Americas.  Where did you photograph it?  If I remember correctly it is found in California, but not in Washington state where I live.

I am going to add it to my list of favorites.

Jerry

Thanks for your detailed comment Jerry!  I've just updated the data under details (forgot to input) to show that this was taken in Irvine, California at a place called San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. I generally shoot handheld and this one is no exception, I got tired of dragging the tripod & gimbal head around and never use them and now it sit in the trunk of the car all the time for the last couple years. For that reason (handheld), I generally want to keep my shutter speed around 1/1000 or more when I shoot with the 2X TC but for this one I cut down to 1/800 since I wanted to use F10 instead of any smaller f-stop for increased DOF.

Beautiful nature shot. Congrats.

Cute and as usual well captured.

Thanks Rejith!

Thanks Greg & Verena! I do use a flash with the Better Beamer flash extender to fill in the shadow some but I don't know if it had fired for this shot or not :-)

Thanks for the technical info.  Superb effort and results, this is one cute chick!...  Mike

Thanks Michael! She's probably half a day old or 1 day at most, I think.

Great capture,details,back gnd,color,light,dof,angle.... perfect!

Many regards! Hanan.

Thanks Hanan!

Great image.  How inspiring.  Beautiful, thanks for sharing it.

Thanks Jean!

Delightful capture indeed.

Thanks Starvy!