[Leica] IMG: Two herons

[Adam Bridge]

So, while I was photographing the blue heron a man walks up and asks me if that is a swan. I don’t think he was a birder.

I told him it wasn’t and that swans are in short supply here but that if he wanted to see really large white birds by the cubic acre he could head out of town to where the snow geese are hanging out.

He was really disappointed it wasn’t a swan because he’d always wanted to see one. Then I helped him see the green heron and told him about the cormorants he’d see up ahead. 

I’m sad that the river otters haven’t been back to the arboretum in a while. It’s a bit of an overland traverse but there are some rather large carp there for the taking. Maybe carp aren’t to an otter’s taste?

Adam

> On Feb 1, 2024, at 3:09 PM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> I enjoy watching the egrets and herons on our waterways.  Elegant hunters
> indeed.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Riding the UCD arboretum this morning I found a great blue heron strutting
>> down the center of the waterway:
>> 
>> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Animals/Birds/i-L8Tns45/A>
>> 
>> A few yards further along a green heron was waiting for breakfast to swim
>> past.
>> 
>> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Animals/Birds/i-4pGmSq2/A>
>> 
>> The blue heron is nearly full-frame while the green heron is probably
>> about half-frame.
>> 
>> Shot with SL2 and the 100-400 with 1.4x telextender. These are at ISO
>> 1000. The noise reduction applied in Capture One is the standard recipe for
>> importing of SL2 images.
>> 
>> Thanks for looking!
>> 
>> Adam Bridge
>> Davis, CA
>> 
>> 
>> 
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