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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: jackbreakfast on September 20, 2011, 01:37:33 PM

Title: juvenile Great Blue Heron: Sweet Revenge
Post by: jackbreakfast on September 20, 2011, 01:37:33 PM

Hello again
Here's another of my favorite bird...
Good beans
Jack Breakfast
(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1300/bh55.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/14/bh55.jpg/)

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Post by: BoboBird on September 20, 2011, 08:11:50 PM

Wow great capture.

Did he pierce the fish with his beak ?

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Post by: jackbreakfast on September 20, 2011, 09:33:37 PM

He sure did! Straight through, Bobo! Kill 'em all, Bobo!

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Post by: BoboBird on September 21, 2011, 02:43:40 AM

Wow!

I have seen them throw a fish back into the water so as to stun them but have never seen a piercing. Nice catch.

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Post by: jackbreakfast on September 21, 2011, 08:28:39 AM

Yes, for both of us!

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Post by: amack1163 on September 21, 2011, 12:06:30 PM

Sure is a great shot but if he speared that fish it was by accident. Hey! He still speared it and it makes for a very cool and very rare capture. You know the old saying..."I'd rather be lucky than good". Good work.

Title: Re: juvenile Great Blue Heron: Sweet Revenge
Post by: jackbreakfast on September 21, 2011, 10:18:34 PM

Maybe so, but I have seen and photographed this particular GBH ad nauseam...I have pictures of him spearing fish on at least 8 separate instances...right through! Lovely blood and bits coming down, etc etc. I'd be curious to hear the reasons for your statement...

Title: Re: juvenile Great Blue Heron: Sweet Revenge
Post by: amack1163 on September 22, 2011, 05:48:56 PM

Not impossible but it's just not typical behaviour. This guy seems to have gone outside the box.

Title: Re: juvenile Great Blue Heron: Sweet Revenge
Post by: jackbreakfast on September 22, 2011, 09:33:48 PM

Ha! Yes, that's why he's my best pal...I've watched him (or her? anyone?) for a cumulative total of a thousand hours...just a guess...

Title: Re: juvenile Great Blue Heron: Sweet Revenge
Post by: Irene on September 23, 2011, 06:46:07 PM

Nice shot! I always wondered when they pierce the fish, how they get it off to open their beaks ..without losing the fish..

Title: Re: juvenile Great Blue Heron: Sweet Revenge
Post by: jackbreakfast on September 24, 2011, 08:32:59 AM

Thanks, Irene. This particular bird would do a lot of wiggling, free the fish, flip it up in the air, then catch it in his (or her?) open mouth. "Okay, but where are the pictures?" you might ask, and you'd be right to! It was a good time, I thought, to have run out of memory...

Title: Re: juvenile Great Blue Heron: Sweet Revenge
Post by: Irene on September 24, 2011, 04:32:26 PM

oh geez Jack, don't you carry an extra card? LOL, I learned that the hard way believe it or not so now i just stick an extra card in my pocket. My card failed one time and I had the most awesome pictures on it and of course still being rather new to photography, I formatted the darned thing not knowing that I could have recovered the photos ...we learn by our mistakes, except my mistakes are huge..hard lessons sometimes LOL!
But I figure that is part of growing and learning :)