Great Blue Heron flying across dam: This Great Blue Heron hangs out at Great Crossing Dam near Georgetown, KY. He has a favorite fishing spot on limestone rock ledge on the south side...

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Great Blue Heron flying across dam

Mar 6, 2020 21:47:51 #

bluezzzzz Loc: Stamping Ground, KY

This Great Blue Heron hangs out at Great Crossing Dam near Georgetown, KY.

He has a favorite fishing spot on limestone rock ledge on the south side of North Elkhorn Creek, and when fishermen show up to fish and get too close he will fly to the north side and wait for them to move away.

When he flies back gives about a 10 second opportunity to get a BIF with the flowing dam overflow as a background.

GBHE05Mar2020_381web by Marshall Smith, on Flickr

Marshall

Mar 6, 2020 23:06:45 #

bluezzzzz Loc: Stamping Ground, KY

And here he is on the south side at his favorite fishing ledge.

GBHE05Mar2020_426web by Marshall Smith, on Flickr

Marshall

Mar 6, 2020 23:08:21 #

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Excellent.

Mar 7, 2020 07:01:26 #

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

bluezzzzz wrote:

This Great Blue Heron hangs out at Great Crossing ... (show quote)

Mar 7, 2020 07:21:10 #

home brewer Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana

I like the shot with the bird on the rock more; the background is less distracting

Mar 7, 2020 08:05:25 #

SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL

Very nice Marshall. Both are great captures, but I like the second one a little better. He looks very intent.

Mar 7, 2020 10:13:05 #

bluezzzzz Loc: Stamping Ground, KY

Thanks home-brewer and SpyderJan, glad you liked them.

I'll have to agree...the first image is a bit blah.

Here is version two, cropped in a bit more, greater emphasis on the heron with a side benefit of highlighting those big bubbles in the foam.

What do you think? Improvement?