BUSTED!!!

'BUSTED!!!'

I was hiding in plain sight... nestled against the rocks down at the edge of the wrack where hundreds of Shorebirds worked tirelessly enjoying the bounty the wrack held.
The Plovers and Sandpipers either couldn't see me or couldn't have cared less that I was watching. And to boot, I was wearing a bright red shirt... not the smartest thing I have worn when I knew I was going to do some birding... I figured I would be shooting from the truck or close to it... not sliding down a chute in the rocks to where they meet the wrack.

This pair of Ruddy Turnstones spent most of their visit to the area with their bills down in the wrack, bulldozing the surface up to get at the goodies below.
The female all of a sudden stopped and stood up... not something they tend to do all that often... and looked straight down the barrel of my lens. I didn't move.... just kept firing. I have my camera set to silent-multiple shot, so I don't think she heard me. She couldn't see my face behind the lens... that Lens-coat camo comes in handy on occasion... whatever she thought she saw must not have been a threat as she went right back to work searching for all the yummy creepy crawlies that reside in the wrack line.

Female Ruddy Turnstone (RUTU) in breeding plumage
Rock Sculpture Point
Second Pull off South of Odiorne Point State Park
Rye, NH, USA 08-02-18

Canon EOS 7D Mark II, EF500mm f-4L IS USM
(Auto Max 1600) ISO 100, f-4.0, 1-2000th Sec., (EFL) 800mm
-1.33 Exposure Compensation.
Lens balanced on a rock down at ground level. Cropped for Composition.
Manual Mode, Partial Metering, Auto White Balance
Edit Flow: Selected and previewed in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw, with final editing in Photoshop.
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