At My Window
There it was in broad daylight again, a little after noon, the so-called “night-heron.” I was working at the table, and just happened to catch sight of it through the window. It was in the small cove between our property and Smith Point. I thought to myself, “someone needs to tell this bird it’s not supposed to show up until dusk; then after a bit, “maybe it learns that when it’s older.”
Anyway, I grabbed the camera and tip-toed out the front door as quietly as I could. Moving around to the pond side of the house, I kept a big bush between me and the bird. When I ran out of cover, I felt I was still a bit far. I stepped out anyway and let off a burst of shots. Startled, my subject flew off. Its flight response was so fast that even though I knew it was coming, I couldn’t aim and shoot fast enough to capture it.
The hunched up position you see here is a characteristic pose, more so than the outstretched neck in my earlier post. If you compare the two photos, you can see just how extensible the neck is.
This photograph was taken August 16, 2011 at 12:43 pm.
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Nice work Ron! Haven’t seen these around the pond in a while.