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Catching the catch

May 20, 2015 by Mike Powell

Early one morning last week at Huntley Meadows Park, I watched and waited as a Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) sought to catch some breakfast. He was successful and I left the scene equally satisfied when I captured this image.

Posted in Birds, Nature, Photography, wildlife | Tagged Alexandria VA, Ardea herodias, Canon 50D, Great Blue Heron, Huntley Meadows Park, Tamron 150-600mm telephoto | 6 Comments

6 Responses

on May 21, 2015 at 12:50 am | Reply Lucy

Gorgeous shot! Herons are such beautiful birds!
- on May 21, 2015 at 4:35 am | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks. Herons are beautiful and powerful, but what amazes me the most is their intense concentration, which you can see in the eyes of the heron I photographed.
on May 21, 2015 at 3:28 am | Reply Birder's Journey

And satisfied you should be ;-). Sometimes i can watch a Great Blue who appears to be ready to strike …for the LONGEST time … without ever seeing him catch a thing. Nice shot!
- on May 21, 2015 at 4:38 am | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks. I too have spent amazingly long periods of times with my eyes on a motionless heron. Usually the heron is more patient than I am. Even worse, the heron often strikes without warning and I am too slow in reacting to capture the brief flurry of action (or the heron turns its back on me after the catch).
on May 21, 2015 at 5:39 am | Reply New Hampshire Garden Solutions

Nice!
on May 21, 2015 at 7:07 am | Reply Before the catch | Mike Powell

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