Backlight on a chick of a pied avocet

I wanted to make a picture with a bird in backlight already for a longtime but to do so the circumstances must be exactly right. Yesterday I was able to make a series of birds in backlight but this shot of a chick of pied avocet has the emotion and atmosphere that I was looking for. It gave my wife tears in her eyes when I showed her this image; must be special then.

Image dimensions: 1531 x 1020 pixels