Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
These guys usually soar quite a bit higher and are hard to photograph, but a combination of the clouds and the closer proximity gave a halfway decent shot.
Nice capture of the wing feathers. Have you tried playing with your editor packages's histogram tool (especially if you have a RAW format image) to see if you can recover more of the colour of the bird? This scenario of dark bird against bright sky always sees me tweaking things, often resulting in over-exposing the sky, which I don't care about, to see more colour in the shadows of the bird (it's what I was doing in my recently posted "Kite Seeking Kompany").
I think I have the option to store images as raw, but I'm not sure what I'd do with them beyond that. Editing phone camera pictures is quite a bit beyond my experience, but capturing more color would be great.
That's a very nice phone camera! That, or I've an even poorer phone camera than I thought (on the grounds of having a full-body camera). You can probably find free apps for your phone that do simple RAW edits, but I can't offer any advice. Dedicated cameras tend to come with software of varying quality (Canon is quite good!).