Friday, August 15, 2008

This is a young Green Heron that I photographed at the end of July. You can tell by his (or her) streaked neck. He was fishing along a small stream that joins Carmans River. These birds tend to be fairly shy. Usually I just see their back ends in flight and I wonder, “Whose butt is that?” I’m not kidding. It happens a lot. I got lucky with this guy. I suspected that he might be ahead – I saw that butt – so I went upstream real slow and quiet. And there he was. I gave him lots of space and he gave me plenty of time to snap some decent pics. I even got a shot of him with a fish in his mouth but the shot is less than terrific so I didn’t include it in this post. JK