gtilford Loc: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

Seems like health issues have plauged me most of October but I did manage to get out Saturday October 28 for a few hours to see if I could photograph a rare visitor to Southern Ontario. A juvenile Little Blue Heron had been seen in the Hamilton, Ontario area over the past few weeks and I had been worried I would not make it out to add it to my bird life list. The weather up this way has started to really turn to colder temperatures and this coming week over night loves are reported to be below 0 degrees Celsius so if the bird was smart it will soon head back south. I was able to get a long shot of it so that I had at least some type of photo to add to my list with the bird and then I started to chase down some Black-capped Chickadees that were in the bushes around me. I got a few shots of them which I will include and upon turning around the Little Blue Heron had flown in and was within 10-15 yards from me. I crouched down and used an old stump for support and spent ten to fifteen minutes with the bird not caring in the least that I was that close.
Images were shot with the Nikon z50 and Sigma 100-400mm lense, and I tried some suggestions that were offered to me on an earlier post I had made this year on the best way to photograph a white subject. Many thanks to the UHH family for those suggestions as I was over the moon with my results. I shot with a very low ISO and a very high shutter speed then brought the image up slightly in post.

1/2500 f8 ISO 800 Little Blue Heron

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1/4000 f8 ISO 500 Little Blue Heron

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Black-capped Chickadee on Sumac

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Blue Jay

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1/4000 f8 ISO 400 shot across the pond and cropped 50% Little Blue Heron with a back drop of old Xmas trees to stablize the bank

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Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Great set!!!

gtilford Loc: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

Thanks very much

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Congratulations on being able to get out to take these excellent photographs. You did a great job photographing the birds.

Dennis

jdtonkinson Loc: Red Wing, MN

Congrats on getting these very fine captures. I've never seen them. It's always exciting to ads to your life list.
Hope your health issues keep improving.
We are getting our 1st snowfalls here and it's getting cold (lows in the 20's F) so birds have been scarce

gtilford Loc: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

thank you

gtilford Loc: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

Thank you and yes unfortunately the winter thing is on its way and I think it might just be one of those old type winters here in Southern Ontario as the pine trees here seem to be over loaded with cones

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

A nice set.

DebAnn Loc: Toronto

A lovely set, for sure. Looks like you had a very enjoyable day.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Great set.

gtilford Loc: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

Thank you

gtilford Loc: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

I did thanks very much

gtilford Loc: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

Thank you

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Cool set

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

I hope you can get out more since it's super to see such awesome photographic posted here 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇