Inflight Little Egret - SkyWatch Friday

I have a dream of taking inflight shot of this Little Egret for quite some time. A flock of 3 to 5 egrets usually fly around my backyard at around 8.00 to 9.00am, especially if there was raining the night before.

My 400mm lenses always attached to the 1.4x Tc (Teleconverter with 3 pins patched) for better reach (560mm). With that TC, only one peripheral AF point is active, and I miss a lot of opportunity with this flying bird.
For this session, I took off that TC, and sacrificed the reach for better AF speed. AI Servo AF mode was selected.
This is what it look like with activate all 9 cross-type AF points.

Full frame photo and croped 50% with Adobe Photoshop CS2

Final image after processing.

two Egrets flew in between coconut leaves.
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta), Local name: Bangau Kecil, Size: 61cm

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