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House Martin Adds Wet Mud to a Half-Built Nest

A house martin with spread wings hovers at a whitewashed cottage wall under the eave with a beakful of wet mud beside a half-built cup of grey mud pellets in bright midday light.

Prompt

A real photograph in the environmental genre, captured on a full-frame digital sensor with a 35mm lens at f/8 for deep contextual sharpness front to back and fine natural grain. A single broad late-afternoon sun key from high camera-right slants downward, settling into soft lengthening shadows with gentle ground-bounce lift in the shade, finished in a warm natural grade with lifelike colour and clear airy midtones. Wide 16:9 frame. In bright midday light a house martin hovers at the whitewashed wall of a cottage under the eave with a beakful of wet mud, a half-built cup of grey mud pellets already stuck against the wall just below the eave, the village lane and a stone wall softly blurred behind, the whole bird in side view with wings spread. No people, hands, text or captions appear; the whole bird, the material it carries and the nest or nest site are all clearly visible.

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