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.

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.

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.