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Great blue heron bringing home the dinner
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Zackiedawg

Great blue heron bringing home the dinner (Ardea herodias)

The always-excellent fishermen, this great blue heron was bringing a nice fish catch back home to its chicks nesting nearby
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Habitat
Wetlands
Location
Delray Beach, Florida
Date taken
February 11, 2017
Scientific name
Ardea herodias
Equipment used
Sony A6300, Sony FE 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 G OSS lens
Shutter speed, aperture & ISO
300mm, F5.6, 1/1000 shutter, 500 ISO
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Reactions: delia todd, Ozprey1, Deb Burhinus and 7 others
peterow
A stunning well timed capture, and three brilliant colourfully detailed shots, well done.
 
KC Foggin
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This image is just pure awesome Zack and captured brilliantly guy!
 
Imageinnovator
Beautiful shot with the light hitting the heron and fish just perfectly. Partial reflection an added extra.
 
Deb Burhinus
I don’t know how I missed this? what a top class image - drama, lighting, form and colour. Those reflections and the dplashes of green against the Heron‘s lilac plumage is sublime!
 

Media information

Category
North America
Added by
Zackiedawg
Date added
View count
136
Comment count
12

Image metadata

Device
SONY ILCE-6300
Aperture
ƒ/5.6
Focal length
300.0 mm
Exposure time
1/1000
ISO
500
Flash
Off, did not fire
Filename
164969765.DA6Kiv8J.OWakoGrnCyA6311feb17289.jpg
File size
457.4 KB
Date taken
Sat, 11 February 2017 3:46 PM
Dimensions
1400px x 933px

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