My First Sora!
I really had to work for this lifer. It is fairly rare to catch a glimpse of them in DFW. Once you do find one, they are shy and stay hidden in the rushes. Even if you see that their movements indicate they are heading for an window of openess, when they get there, they suddenly dart across the open space and into the cover on the other side of about a half foot of openness, too fast in most cases to catch them. So after a lot of missed shots, and shots with pretty vegetation on a blurred bird background, I got a few keepers. This is one of them & I count myself very lucky to have it. I have been wanting to see a Sora for several years.