It was cold and gray yesterday afternoon at Huntley Meadows Park and there weren’t a lot of people around. The Chairman of the Board(walk) decided that it was a good time to survey his marsh from a different vantage point.
I just love watching Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) and you never know what they will choose to do next. It was unusual, however, taking photos of one using the 150mm end of my 150-600mm Tamron lens and I actually had to back up in order to fit the heron’s entire body in the frame. Shortly after I took these shots, the heron flew off a short distance, back into the water.
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Mike Powell 
Blue herons seem to be inquisitive birds, willing to check out just about anything. I had one walk right up to my truck and look in the passenger side window when I was parked beside a river one day. That’s something I’ve never forgotten!
Wow! That’s an incredible experience. When I am alone and moving slowly, as was the case yesterday, some herons are remarkably tolerant of my presence and basically ignore me.
Legal notice: Your misuse of the title “Chairman of the Board(walk),” to which I laid claim on 08 November 2014, is herroneous and egretious! Be advised, I have retained the services of the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe. Hopefully this dispute can be settled as expeditiously as possible. http://waltersanford.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/huntley-insects-endorse-coleman-camp-stool/
Clever comment–you had me laughing throughout. I remember that law firm from the Car Guys on NPR, but apparently it has been used by others too. “Heronneous and egretious” indeed. You retain your status, for sure, as the hypenated chair-man of the unparenthetically divided boardwalk at Huntley Meadows Park.
I “borrowed” the name of the law firm from the Three Stooges.
What a great stance!
More than anything else, the stance drew my attention to this shot above several others.
It would certainly have drawn my attention too Mike!
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