The very act of taking a long focal length ie high magnification lens to a job usually done by a smaller one may seem madness, but long lenses have several advantages in some circumstances. Things get squashed up and the sense of perspective enables you to pull all sorts of elements in a shot together - here the reeds, the water, the hedges and the fields.
There's also the narrow field of view to consider - so one can capture the subject and only the subject and - in this case not the mass of power lines above it.
And the telephoto can be used like a macro lens capturing detail and if its a good lens, the clarity won't be compromised too much. A 500mm lens on my Nikon gives the effective magnification of a 640mm lens so it can pull detail from inaccessible places - eg the middle of a canal into view.
The ability to get close to wildlife is handy too. Helped if there's a bird table or feeder in the vicinity of course.
One of the great things about the narrow field of view is that one can declutter the background and in this case, choose the delicate shades of an evening sky.
The ability of such lenses to get right to the heart of a subject - and then abstract it is useful and fascinating especially with a ever changing pot of colours one gets at sunset - here's the mid-range view of a sunset in June.
And here's what's going on in the middle of the mix, albeit a little later in the event.
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