Green herons, herons, herons

[Stephen Stephen]

I've been away for a couple of weeks in (British Columbia and Alaska) so I haven't been on POTN for a while.

Here are a series of shots that I got a day or so before I left for vacation. CanonDSLR and I were fortunate to see this family of young herons. They were hopping around the trees waiting for their parents to return. For a few moments they cuddled up together.

The angle was steep but I'm really glad that I got these. :lol:
The shots are all about 85-90% of full frame. Bigma, monopod with fill flash.

"This way!", "No this way!", "No this way!"

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s219/Squidcan/Birds/YNGHER1.jpg

Portrait

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s219/Squidcan/Birds/YNGHER6.jpg

"Get your beak out of my face"

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s219/Squidcan/Birds/YNGHER3.jpg

[stevefossimages]

Love those captures, Stephen. Hope your trip went well. Steep angle or not, they're total keepers in my book. :D

[morehtml]

All really nice images

[Alex Paul]

Outstanding shots Stephen :) :)

[canonloader]

What a catch Stephen, a wonderful series to come back with. :)

[Cooper911]

Solid crisp and clean captures. The detail is superb and although I really like the first and last one...I have to give top kudos to the portrait. Nice work.

[Reyno]

Welcome back Stephen:D Outstanding captures in all with beautiful colors and great details.

[canonshooter4life]

Really nice shots... and a good find!

[sugarzebra]

The first shot is priceless Stephen. Welcome back and I trust you got a chance to take some shots while out west & up north.

[Gary Fairhead]

Three excellent captures and i know the tree but never got back there until two weeks ago so the fuzz was gone and they looked pretty independent. Very nice details and i don't think the angle hurt these at all.

[Canonada]

Excellent series, great to see the fuzzy young ones. Thanks for posting. Would you be willing to share where this was taken?
Joe

[dazzlebea]

I love these, Stephen! The little guys are too cute and your captures are fantastic. Outstanding examples for use of fill flash!

[JimLittle]

Great light in these---beautiful shots---well done!!

[Miniflash]

vERY NICE ~

[hTr]

Great Find and even better pictures, Great Series Stephen

[Stephen Stephen]

Thank you Steve, Allen, Alex, Cooper, Reyno, Brandon, Scott, Joe Bea, Jim, Deb and Gary for your kind words and for taking the time to comment.

Three excellent captures and i know the tree but never got back there until two weeks ago so the fuzz was gone and they looked pretty independent. Very nice details and i don't think the angle hurt these at all.

Thanks Gary. I missed the Green Herons and their young ones completely last summer so I'm very pleased that I got to photograph them this year.

[canondslruser]

Welcome back. Hope you had a great time on Vancouver Island and Alaska. I'm sure you have some nice pics to share. Stephen, these are really good shots and some of the best I've seen from you....I'm sure I missed many images as I don't come to this forum that often until recently.

Aren't you glad you stuck around with me late that day in early Spring? Curiosity got the best of me and I just had to check it out when most would have just left.

I was told to keep it a secret because disturbance would have forced the birds to find another nest site. I never told anyone (after I was asked not to) up to the time I ran into you there so I was surprised to see you that day. I suppose you put one and one together.

While you seem a responsible bird photographer, there are many out there who are not. Some are just uneducated or don't care for the birds welfare. Just to show you the variety of people out there, one guy even PM me and claimed there were no rare bird reports because of a certain reason. I had to laugh :lol: There are no rare bird reports because there are no rare birds to report. There is no conspiracy :) Sometimes when there is an endangered bird, like the Piping Plover, a location is not given until it is secured. The person sounded bitter so I'll chalk it up to that instead of, well...it would be sad to think someone actually thought that way. There are people who don't think right and these are the people you'd least want to share any such info with.
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[downywp]

Beautiful shots, what a great thing you got to see, those chicks are so cute!:)

[khall]

NUMBER TWO. It's just a great picture.

[Stephen Stephen]

Thank you Canon, Downy and Khall for you comments.

[Wayne Wood]

Excellent detail and exposure on these Stephen , I hope you had an awesome Alaskan Cruise and I look forward to seeing some pics from your trip

[Reigh Higgins]

Excellent Stephen. Thanks for sharing.

[Blackburnian]

Realy Love these Stephen!

Nice catch!

[Postiemon]

Wilson:[What has this got to do with the photographs????????quote=canondslruser;3570123]Welcome back. Hope you had a great time on Vancouver Island and Alaska. I'm sure you have some nice pics to share. Stephen, these are really good shots and some of the best I've seen from you....I'm sure I missed many images as I don't come to this forum that often until recently.

Aren't you glad you stuck around with me late that day in early Spring? Curiosity got the best of me and I just had to check it out when most would have just left.

I was told to keep it a secret because disturbance would have forced the birds to find another nest site. I never told anyone (after I was asked not to) up to the time I ran into you there so I was surprised to see you that day. I suppose you put one and one together.

While you seem a responsible bird photographer, there are many out there who are not. Some are just uneducated or don't care for the birds welfare. Just to show you the variety of people out there, one guy even PM me and claimed there were no rare bird reports because of a certain reason. I had to laugh :lol: There are no rare bird reports because there are no rare birds to report. There is no conspiracy :) Sometimes when there is an endangered bird, like the Piping Plover, a location is not given until it is secured. The person sounded bitter so I'll chalk it up to that instead of, well...it would be sad to think someone actually thought that way.
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[bromm]

Fantastic series Stephen, welcome back! :D

[dancad]

A very entertaining series Stephen, I especially enjoyed the first shot! :-D

[Mr. E]

Oh my god, they are so cute! Great shots!

[kenyc]

Wonderful Stephen!

KAC

[Stephen Stephen]

Thank you Wayne, Reigh, Marc, Postie, Trevor, Dan, Erik and Kenny!

[Bill Boehme]

Excellent crisp images with great detail and great color. Well done.

[snowyowl13]

Excellent!

[MarkEvan]

Fantasitic images there steven, with comical captions, great work


Mark

[Adi7r]

Wow ! excellent shots. Lovely detail and contrast.

[Stephen Stephen]

Bill, Dan, Mark and Adi thank you for your kinds words.

[KaplanMultimedia]

Wow... magazine quality. Congrats on the fine captures. :D