I was having my coffee

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited April 18, 2006 in Wildlife
Friday morning, sitting in my back yard and getting ready for my morning swim when I saw a bird fly in the stream behing my pool. The bird was different from the ysyal birds we get so I got up to take a look.

After I got a look at our visitor I went back into the house and grabbed my camera. My visitor was......

a flipping night heron

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for close to two years I haven't been able to get a really close up shots of a night heron and here's this sucker posing right outside my house

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eventually he took off and I wnet back to my now cold coffee :cry

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I noticed that he flew a short ways down the stream to two other night herons. Maybe my night heron drought is over. :clap
Harry
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 15, 2006
    It's about time.
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  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Congratulations Harryclap.gifclap
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  • StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    And fantastic shots they are. It's an omen, I tell you, an omen.
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  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Cool birds. I have a few of those in my living room. rolleyes1.gifthumb.gifthumb.gif Some nice shots Harry. You are working too hard to get shots of the BCNH. Just open the patio door ....grab a cold one...a cumfy seat..and wait a few minutes. :uhoh :D
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Good I'm glad to see he/she finally arrived.
    Jeff and I were hoping UPS didn't mess up.
    Invoice to follow :lol
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  • Eric&SusanEric&Susan Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    All this time looking and then they finally come to you.


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  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Great luck and nice shots!
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,263 moderator
    edited April 16, 2006
    Night Herons can fly?
    Ya learn something new every day here.

    Harry, good catch. Your first coffee table book will have a Night Heron on its cover. This is your destiny.
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    What ever happened to....
    that big white bird that used to haunt that area by your pool?

    Cute little birdies! They must have wanted their piccies taken really badly to fly to your pool area!rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    And you had GOOD light, too!

    the gods smiled!

    Nice shots! You done well with what you were given!

    Happy Easter!

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    It's about time.

    nod.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    gluwater wrote:
    Congratulations Harryclap.gifclap

    Thank you Nick it was a long wait.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Nice shots, Harry. Night Heron means nothing to me, but anything you've waited 2 years for must be special. Those eyes are amazing. The BIF shot is nice.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Stormdancing wrote:
    And fantastic shots they are. It's an omen, I tell you, an omen.

    Thanks Dana and hopefully those suckers will keep stopping by.
    Harry
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Nice indeed!thumb.gif

    Just remember the fresh brewed coffee.....next time.1drink.gif
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Bird Man Photographer wrote:
    Cool birds. I have a few of those in my living room. rolleyes1.gifthumb.gifthumb.gif Some nice shots Harry. You are working too hard to get shots of the BCNH. Just open the patio door ....grab a cold one...a cumfy seat..and wait a few minutes. :uhoh :D

    Thnaks Mike but down here we don't get too many night herons. We have just about every other bird but very few night herons ne_nau.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    bfjr wrote:
    Good I'm glad to see he/she finally arrived.
    Jeff and I were hoping UPS didn't mess up.
    Invoice to follow :lol

    Thanks Ben. It was a bit of a hassle getting the shipping label off the feathers but we worked it out. biggrinbounce2.gif
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Great backyard catch harry. I am tring to find a wav of their call. There are several just beside me here on the river that i see in the late afternoon & every morning about 4am some birds start screaming...each gives a call & then the other takes it an octave higher & 20 db louder. I dont know what is doing it & suspect the night heron. Hell of an alarm clock.
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited April 16, 2006
    Chance favors the prepared mind.

    Well done, harry! thumb.gif
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  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Wow, amazing shots Harry. The Heron in flight is amazing. Well done.

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Eric&Susan wrote:
    All this time looking and then they finally come to you.


    Eric

    Yep, Eric. Sometimes you have to stop looking to get what you were looking for.
    Harry
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  • Bob&GlennieBob&Glennie Registered Users Posts: 320 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Would someone like to step into the washroom and check Harry's butt for horseshoes? rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif

    Seriously Harry, your work is outstanding.
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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Wonderful shots Harry, and congrats on conquering your nemesis.

    What shall we torment you with now....

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  • MarkjayMarkjay Registered Users Posts: 860 Major grins
    edited April 16, 2006
    Way to go, Harry!!!!!!!!
    First....... you have to tell us what KIND of coffee you were drinking?
    Maybe, just maybe it will work for me (us) because I have yet to find ONE stinking night heron pose for me!! They are very shy and, the moment they
    feel they are being tracked (by my camera) or as soon as I take one step forward (or sideways! lol)..... they're gone!

    So......
    hats off to Harry who has quickly become a near expert at Florida bird species.

    Best regards,
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  • KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Awesome. That flight shot is sa-weet.thumb.gifthumb
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Rohirrim wrote:
    Great luck and nice shots!

    Thanks Steve
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  • Yuri PautovYuri Pautov Registered Users Posts: 1,918 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Fantastic photos, Harry!
    I didnt visit these pages of Dgin for some time...
    But spring came to our places...
    Well done, Master!
    Yuri
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    David_S85 wrote:
    Ya learn something new every day here.

    Harry, good catch. Your first coffee table book will have a Night Heron on its cover. This is your destiny.

    Thanks David. NHs really don't fly but they jump extremely well. biggrinbounce2.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    Dee wrote:
    that big white bird that used to haunt that area by your pool?

    Cute little birdies! They must have wanted their piccies taken really badly to fly to your pool area!rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif



    That egret or his relatives are still regular visitors. We get herons, sandhill cranes, wood storks, ducks and ibis regularly also and every once in a while a limpkin.

    I have adopted a policy of not shooting the birds that land in my back yard area. Its just too easy. I made an exception for the night herons.
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 17, 2006
    ginger_55 wrote:
    And you had GOOD light, too!

    the gods smiled!

    Nice shots! You done well with what you were given!

    Happy Easter!

    ginger

    Thanks Ginger. This is Florida we always have good light. :D
    Harry
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