Animal Behavior Sequence

bfjr

Yesterday while shooting I saw this Egret go over a rise and not come up. So whats a photog guy to do, follow him of course
As I reached the rise I saw a small pond with severl Egrets, and quite a few Pink Legs.

Well as I approached the pond the pink legs started making a ruckus. I saw several adults flying about a several more prancing about in the water along with 3 or 4 young ones.
They didn't think I should be there :dunno


Then several adults started fliting about one particular baby that had wondered passed that hidden line separates them and us.

They started shoving and pushing the baby into the water or dragging it back across that line, just about anything to keep it out of harms way.




It seemed more like child abuse :wow.


Realizing that it was I that was causing the grief, I took my shots and bid them ado.

kdog

Killer shots, and excellent story, Benjamin!!! clap

Regards,
-joel

Osprey Whisperer

Pretty neat stuff Machinegun..especially like the blue water effect.

Awais Yaqub

great captures loved them

Harryb

Excellent set Ben and kudos to ya for recognizing your impact on your subjects and withdrawing from the scene. Lots of photographers would have kept on shooting.

raptorcaptor

Great sequence! Nice color and sharpness! I saw a similar event at San Joaquin. A Photographer had gone done to the very edge of the pond, and scared the stilts into the open water. The chicks were tiny but could swim quite well. The parent stilts herded them away from the photographer and dive bombed any bird that was even close to the chicks. The photographer did not leave.

jwear

and i was just beating up the skimmers good set --it is going to get harder with the new lay out :uhoh

bfjr

kdog wrote:

Killer shots, and excellent story, Benjamin!!! clap

Regards,
-joel

Thanks Joel
Hope you had as nice or better, 4th as I did
and thanks for taking time to comment here

bfjr

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

Pretty neat stuff Machinegun..especially like the blue water effect.

Mike, Mike, Boobbala, Baby Cakes :lol

No Effect needed, its the "Real Nikon Deal" going on.

Get used to it !!! :lol4 :hide

bfjr

Awais Yaqub wrote:

great captures loved them

Happy to hear this Awais, thank you.

bfjr

Harryb wrote:

Excellent set Ben and kudos to ya for recognizing your impact on your subjects and withdrawing from the scene. Lots of photographers would have kept on shooting.

Hey Harry
I am very proud of Jeff and I (actually all the westies I've shoot with)
We go, see, MachineGun, enjoy but never change, alter, interfere with the order of things.
We are pretty vocal and proactive when it comes to this, even if we see others not following those beliefs!

Hell they don't call us "Photo Thugs" for nuttin :lol

bfjr

raptorcaptor wrote:

Great sequence! Nice color and sharpness! I saw a similar event at San Joaquin. A Photographer had gone done to the very edge of the pond, and scared the stilts into the open water. The chicks were tiny but could swim quite well. The parent stilts herded them away from the photographer and dive bombed any bird that was even close to the chicks. The photographer did not leave.

Yep same tactic.
Seems a rough way to protect the young, but it's way rougher to get eaten :wow

Got zip to say about "that photographer"

dallas

Excellent Ben, there are always other shots to take when that happens.

bfjr

jwear wrote:

and i was just beating up the skimmers good set --it is going to get harder with the new lay out :uhoh

Hey I was the guy jumping up and down waving arms franticly in the air.
You got your eyballs glued to viewfinder, who am I to interrupt an artist at work!! :uhoh