Birding: Sometimes it just doesn't pay.

largelylivin

My wife said dinner would be in half and hour so I decided to take a walk around the two acre pond behind my boat. It was getting late and I didn't have long so I just grabbed my camera with the DA*300 on it. I didn't bother with the 1.4 TC, the Sigma 50-500, tripod, or the flash and better beamer. Time was short and I wouldn't get any good pictures anyway.

Before I reached the start of the trail I see this:




its been heavily pp'd just to get an image.


That chunky goofy looking bird is a juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron, my first of the year. But right above it to the right is a Green Heron too!
Shoot, sometimes I go for two hour walks around the pond and come back with nothing besides cat birds and red-wingged black birds, which I take just to make sure my shutter finger is always in shape.


I took a dozen pictures and this was the best I got AND I was late for dinner which torqued off the wife.

dlplumer

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