great blue heron – Page 3 – Feathered Photography

Great Blue Heron In Flight Series

This bird was sporting its own icy “charm” in flight.

Great Blue Heron Banking In Flight And Low To The Ground

My favorite shot from yesterday morning at Bear River MBR.

Great Blue Heron Takeoff Series

Plus my take on Canon’s new IDX Mark III camera. Final specs were announced yesterday.

Great Blue Heron In A Snowstorm

I was mostly unprepared for this unexpected opportunity yesterday afternoon but thankfully I had my backup camera gear with me.

Aggressive Great Blue Herons – “Upright And Spread Wing Display”

After twelve years of photographing birds and paying particular attention to their behaviors it isn’t every day that I witness a ritualized aggressive behavior that’s new to me. But it happened yesterday at Bear River MBR with a couple of Great Blue Herons, seemingly on steroids.

Two Great Blue Herons – Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Not Quite

These two herons looked identical to me, until they took off.

Fourteen Image Series Of A Great Blue Heron Taking Off And In Flight

I actually got nine additional photos of this bird in flight but I thought these fourteen were the best ones. They’re all presented in the order they were taken with no skips.

Me And My Shadow – Great Blue Heron In Flight

Occasionally a single element in a photo will grab me in a way that I’m willing to overlook something else that would normally put me off a little.

A Potpourri Of Recent Birds And Critters

It’s been a while since I published a potpourri post so I figured it was about time. Each of the following 8 images was taken over the last 8 days in places like Bear River MBR, Antelope Island, Farmington Bay WMA or other favorite haunts of mine in northern Utah.