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Patience got the reward. After several hours together ever the shy

birds became friends. Thanks for the constructive comments.

The bird is kinda disproportional but it's a nice shot in flight

Tecnicamente excelente!...bravo!...7/6

 

Well, you do not often see this bird flying with straight neck but those proportion are real:). Best regards, Mark

mark i've been on the site a couple of years, tried some bird shots myself, and this is among the very best i've seen. crisp shot of a bird in motion, with beautiful colors (the yellow, red, green all realistic and rich at the same time), great exposure (nothing blown out, but vibrant), great stuff. and i'm not just saying it, i mean it.

With out a doubt...the best bird shot on this site. 7/7

A very beautiful picture

Great lighting and timing for the capture, Outstanding!

This is not easy! Well done with cooperative lighting.

Certainly worth the wait, Congrats on this one!

Really a great picture...takes a lot of patience to get this shot I imagine!! Great job of managing the exposure with right speed!!

Beautiful capture!

As a bird shooter I can surely tell you how hard it is to get a shot like this. This is excellent, sharp and vivid. Great job.

Mark please let us know the in flight situation. I am wondering about the aerodynamics. The wing tips are bent upwards, I wonder if the wings were held like this for a second or so? any details you remember is of interest to me, perhaps per email if you remember a lot :-P

 

what an amazing shot :-)

 

This is a great shot.

This is a beautiful capture and a difficult shot. Is this a heron? If so, I agree it does look stocky, but no doubt real. The muted hues in the background give just enough detail. Lovely image.

Walter: if this info is important to you than you are lucky one :) and you asked for it:). Photo was taken just couple days ago on June 5 at 7:16:41 as a last one in the series. Short introductory. Place was a wildlife national refugee in Texas. It is not a Florida, here usually in place like that is not a living human soul before 11-12am than maybe a few visitors will come, maybe not. I do not see them as I am taking nap in motel after 12am. I have no clue why they are coming at that hour as the place is dead and the temperature is over 100 F heat factor. All sane creatures look for a shelter:). In last few weeks I spent about 7-8 days there, last time from Thursday to Monday. Sunday morning I noticed that one spot attracted many herons and egrets so next day I was there before sunrise and spent few hours there. In this whole place many birds are very shy, as they do not have a lot of close contact with people and a lot of grounds to keep away. Even Great Egrets are flying away when you get in 50-100 yards range. Green Herons and Least Bitterns are the worse here flying away when they notice you. This morning was interesting as a lot of Great Egrets started to come and was taking position in the small canal, some as close as maybe 20-30 feet away from me. Then a green heron came and get as close as maybe 15 feet from me. It start flying away making a half circle around me at the distance of 12-15 feet and about 5 -8 feet above the ground but than got confused turned sharply around and when was coming from the turn last photo was taken. I was able to get 20 shots (from 7:16:00 to 7:16:41) in 41 seconds and only few were slightly blurred (maybe it was a mistake to delete them). Several hours of panning every day in past few days helped a lot:). Below I will upload a few taken before posted one. If this will help you in any way it will be my pleasure to help. If you have any more questions please ask. Best regards, Mark

very very cute

coming down

Sharp turn lost that beauty :(

In fact this or another green heron came back after 5 minutes so I could take few more shots:).

As I am not sure why the bended up tips of the wings are so important to you I will post a few another birds doing it. I see it very often especially when they are turning and gliding. And this last more then few seconds when sliding. The few examples posted below are from last few days. I have a lot of them in the past as well ? if it is of such importance I can look for them but I will have to know what exactly you are looking for.

caracara 2

Tern hunting crayfish

red winged blackbird