First GBH's!!!

Thusie

Ohoo I'm happy! This is the absolute closest I've even gotten to one of these guys and still had to crop big time, little soft on the focus but I'm STILL HAPPY!:D:D:D Even have it in flight! C&C always welcome, thanks for looking.

Osprey Whisperer

Congrats and nice captures, Thusie. I won't torture you with the GBH in my house shots.

ginger_55

Gosh, they are a bit soft, Thusie!!! Now how could you let that happen???? Harsh words, harsh words!!!!! Criticism, etc. !!! You have been taking squirrels, should be able to take a heron, etc. .......




Ah, I am just playing with you, Thusie! And the forum situation sometimes!

Those may be soft to you, but they look pretty good to me! I really like the background on your bird in flight!

Hey, if I can tell what kind of bird it is, now I consider that sharp enough. I would prefer "sharp as a tack", before posting............but I posted a shot I love, on People, this morning where the little girl is less sharp than your birds!

Sometimes you take what the good lord gives you, or whomever is doing the cooking that night......smile.

Which is your photo of the day? I may be too tired. Bill is shooting a baseball game, but my eyes feel like grain, my brain is mush, and I am seriously thinking of photographing a brick wall to get a "real" on time Daily Photo!

(do you suppose that it would make favorites? Or I could shoot the sky to show dust on my sensor, that should be a subject right there.........see I must be tired, can't stop talking)

Are herons in season, legal and all, now where you live? Are you expecting more?

Congratulations on your catch! How big was the one who got away? Or maybe "how sharp was the one who got away?". Maybe it is the bird who is soft, not the photographer, :uhoh .

ginger

Ric Grupe

So that is what they look like! All I ever see is a butt or they are so far away I'd need a 600mm and a 100% crop!!!

Extremely nice, Thusie.

Thusie

Thanks much folks!

In your kitchen huh? No fair Birdman:):


Ginger they have festival here when the GBH's offically return this is one that has stayed around the Hatchey all winter. I promised no squirrel shots today on Daily Photos:-)) But this isn't it.


Ric usually all I see it a tall skinny something before it takes off, got very lucky, very.

Dick on Aruba

Congrats with those very nice pics. GBH's are great to shoot. Well done.

Dick.

Sewerman

Very Nice!! I can't for the life of me get a bird in flight!! Live on the ocean and still miss every shot! Hi HO!

Harryb

Atta way Thusie. Your first GBH shots and a BIF too!. I'm glad to see that my program to send our excess egrets and herons to bird deprived areas is paying off.

Rohirrim

Nice job Thusie, glad you found your own GBH. They are often very difficult to get close to. The second image is nice and sharp, nice low down angle, I won't mention the missing legs

Nice in flight capture.

jwear

well when i first posted my gbh ect Harry alway ask what it was nothing like the first

jeff lapoint

Love the flight shot

saurora

Way to go Thusie!!! I especially like the bird in flight. It's neat to see the "topside" of the bird for a change, with the feathers splayed down the back. How did you do that? You must be pretty tall...Keep it up!!!

pathfinder

The flight shot is great, Thusie. Very nice.

If the GBHs in Ohio are like the ones here in Indiana, they are a different breed than their Florida cousins. Don't let Birdman fool ya. You'll never see a GBH come inside your house up here in the midwest.

I tried to shoot one yesterday locally - I have seen it for the last several days behind the local K-Mart shopping center on the sodium lights over the holding pond for roof run off. The bird sits up there, or wades in the pond water, unruffled by traffic driving by in all directions. The pond is fenced by chain link fencing.

But when I stopped and parked my truck on the other side of the building and tried to walk within shooting range with a 600mm lens - I did not get within 75 yards, and the bird lofted and was gone. That has been my experience so often with GBHs here in Indiana. SO, I think you did good, Thusie!!

Thusie

Thanks, Dick, Jeff, Saurora, Jwear, do appreciate you taking a look!

Sewerman I miss 99.5% of my BIF shots:D

Harry keep sending!

Thank you Steve for not mention the legs, figured it would be one of those little 'nits'

Pathfinder you are dead on about the GHB's, he usually keeps at least one hatchery pond+ away from me, 50 to 75 yards is about right. I spent about 35+ minutes moving slowly, stopping, moving again to get even sort of close. I think the only thing in my favor was he was up at a small pond away from those yelling Canada Geese that go balistic at the sight of a human. Like your situation, there are people there all the time one would think they wouldn't be quite so spookie Glad to know it isn't me, was starting to get a complex.

Thanks again everyone!!!

John Mueller

I think these birds are so cool.I get excited every time I see one.
Great firsts
Some GBH will let you get close.

Thusie

John Mueller wrote:

I think these birds are so cool.I get excited every time I see one.
Great firsts
Some GBH will let you get close.

Thanks John. I'm thinking maybe the ones that come back to Buckeye Ocean might be a bit better. Never have tried to get a shot of one, usually trying to catch one:):