I think you’ve got a great egret on your hands, not a snowy egret.
Miguel, something terrible is happening to your last few images you've posted . At full size, they have large grains all over them that just shouldn't be there at ISO 800 in daylight. It's really quite weird.One more from Emigrant Lake in Ashland - this one of a great egret 'fishing'--
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Miguel, something terrible is happening to your last few images you've posted . At full size, they have large grains all over them that just shouldn't be there at ISO 800 in daylight. It's really quite weird.
Topaz Sharpen is like wah-wah: it's really easy to use too much!Alas, there is a prosaic explanation for the graininess: this is what happens when you a) try to blow up an extremely tiny section of a larger photo (because, alas, you were so far away from your avian subjects that in the original digital negative, they were rather tiny in the frame), and, after realizing that the photo was slightly out of focus to begin with, you subsequently b) attempt to use the generally excellent Topaz Sharpen plug-in to make the resulting photo a bit sharper.
That's why I got the 150-600 zoom!Moral of story: Robert Capa was right when he said words to the effect that if your photo's not good enough, you're not close enough
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Luckily I was doing the Manual + Auto ISO trick the youngsters are doing and was able react to the murder(?) of jackdaws by raising the shutter speed in time.