Great White Egret

According to me this is a Great White Egret (rather than a Great

White Heron) because he has black legs. Both Egrets and Herons occur

in Southern Florida where this fellow was taken. His neck is like

that by design - seems to help to retract the neck in two hairpin

curves during flight.

Hello Peter, I take it this was shot from a hide? I've never been able to get this close with a 300+1.4x, so using the 70-200 is very impressive.

 

P

No, this critter was close to a road and not particularly shy. This was taken from about 3 meters/yards distance. The picture is slightly cropped. Note that the camera also has a 1.6 crop factor, making the 200m equivalent to 320m on your Canon 5D ;-)