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Beautiful shot, Cog.
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Today I went to a location where in the last few days few people reported Northern Harrier. Didn't see it. Instead I took few photos of Bristle-thighed Curlew.
Common in this season on that location (there where ~20-25 birds on that spot in the same time!). Very hot day (see the bird in the first photo!!!). I payed with ~1 (may be 2?) liters of sweat?
Note the odd background in the first photo (it's just a grass growing on sandy ground) below the bird: obviously the program (DxO 6) doesn't care about that part of the photo - every thing is washed out (or just looking very odd!!) by the heat diffraction. On that spot at the same season I always get this! In the second photo the bird is about 60-70cm above the ground and only ~15 meters away! Still not what I would expect from that distance!

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