snowrdr
17th of June 2005 (Fri), 12:51
I guess I need a new 20D, and need to have it on all the time...
Yesterday during my lunch hour, I was walking through a wetlands park close to my work. There is a small creek that winds through and a path with a couple of bridges over it. I was coming up to the second bridge with a water bottle in one hand and my turned off A95 in the other. The grass is tall now so you can't see the water until you are on the bridge. I hear a duck just as I walk up and think OK, I guess I will take some more duck shots... This creek is only about 10 feet wide and the bridge is only about 6 or 8 feet above the water. As I get on the bridge and look upstream, there he is, a full grown Great Blue Heron standing on a log that extends out past the middle of the water about 15 feet in front of me. And who just now floated downstream to that log? A female duck and her 8-10 new ducklings! I freeze when I see the GBH and my finger goes on the A95's power button. The GBH was already starting to move his head down towards the ducklings in slow-motion when all of a sudden the mom duck literally jumps out of the water and hits the GBH full on in a huge commotion!!!
They are both coming right at the bridge and me, the GBH 's wings are out and almost as wide as the creek and somehow he gets turned around in time, flys under the bridge and out the other side but not before leaving behind about a quart of GBH sh!t in the water...
The mom goes back to her ducklings and they continue their downstream journey. :D:D:D
Talk about a missed opportunity! It all happened within a couple of seconds after I reached the bridge. :(
Yesterday during my lunch hour, I was walking through a wetlands park close to my work. There is a small creek that winds through and a path with a couple of bridges over it. I was coming up to the second bridge with a water bottle in one hand and my turned off A95 in the other. The grass is tall now so you can't see the water until you are on the bridge. I hear a duck just as I walk up and think OK, I guess I will take some more duck shots... This creek is only about 10 feet wide and the bridge is only about 6 or 8 feet above the water. As I get on the bridge and look upstream, there he is, a full grown Great Blue Heron standing on a log that extends out past the middle of the water about 15 feet in front of me. And who just now floated downstream to that log? A female duck and her 8-10 new ducklings! I freeze when I see the GBH and my finger goes on the A95's power button. The GBH was already starting to move his head down towards the ducklings in slow-motion when all of a sudden the mom duck literally jumps out of the water and hits the GBH full on in a huge commotion!!!
They are both coming right at the bridge and me, the GBH 's wings are out and almost as wide as the creek and somehow he gets turned around in time, flys under the bridge and out the other side but not before leaving behind about a quart of GBH sh!t in the water...
The mom goes back to her ducklings and they continue their downstream journey. :D:D:D
Talk about a missed opportunity! It all happened within a couple of seconds after I reached the bridge. :(