Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: thouc on September 18, 2020, 11:46:03 AM
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(https://cdn.download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/263598671/480)
Yellow-bellied Cuckoo playing peekaboo
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Merlin
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Green Heron
Didn't need Shortsighted's time-consuming tactics for this one, it popped out of the vegetation when I startled it and posed nicely on a railing.
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You're just more gentile-looking than I am and did not come across as
a threat. You were probably not moving when it posed to assess the
intrusion and that makes all the difference. You can see that it has
a relaxed stance with feather unruffled and flat. Also, your lens was
probably so immense that your face was well-concealed and those
critical eyes are completely hidden.
Nice shots ... thanks for posting.
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Yeah, I tried to get my camera out of my pocket (so no, no immense lens, just zoom point-and-shoot) very carefully not to startle the heron again. The head feathers were raised when he popped up and landed, but it got more relaxed when I was able to take the picture.
/Thomas
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I would love to take the one with the crest feathers up. Didn't know they do that before.
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Sure you do, Ally.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-f4sntFg/1/92e35fac/M/i-f4sntFg-M.jpg) (https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-358cgw/i-f4sntFg/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-nFtb38f/0/b571652b/M/i-nFtb38f-M.jpg) (https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-358cgw/i-nFtb38f/A)
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Love him sticking his bottom up too!