Would you have bothered?

This is an image that many people would not bother with. Recently I was near the Salton Sea in the Imperial Valley of California. I was traveling on a dirt farm road before sunrise to photograph some Burrowing Owls I had spotted the day before. On my left, a field was being flooded for irrigation. When this happens large numbers of birds, often seagulls, show up to eat the insects and worms that are driven to the surface. What I did not expect was a flock of 200 White-faced Ibis to fly in. I saw them coming and rolled my window down, but did not expect a large number of them to land, literally, next to my car. I totally botched up the exposure and zoom settings and ended up with images that were marginal. I could not pass up the beautiful colors that were highlighted by the sun peeking over the horizon and tried to make the image as good as possible. This image has had LOTS done to it in Photoshop. A number of OOF birds were cloned out. A linear gradient was placed from the right and the sun direction was emphasized. Several of the birds were OOF and I attempted to sharpen them individually with poor success. In the end, it is what it is, but I still like it. I cropped it in a 16:9 aspect to emphasize the direction they were landing in.