Long-tailed Jaeger

Canon 1D-X, 500mm f4 x 1.4 TC, prone on tundra
f14, 1/8000, ISO2500, -2/3ev

The wind was blowing 25-30 mph and gusting to 40 mph. You can see the grass stems and even the lousewort are bent. A high shutter speed to freeze that motion. The bird was angled to me, requiring a pretty high f-stop to get all of her in focus. And I wanted to give a sense of where she had nested. The result is pretty busy. The whites in the neck are higher than I'd like, but any darker and I lost the eye in the cap. The long tail makes the composition a challenge, too. I dunno.

75% of full frame (crop from bottom and top). selective sharpening of the bird.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.