Tri-colored Heron With Fish

[Joseph Przybyla]

I was at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida last fall. I saw this Tri-colored Heron catching fish at the inlet of a culvert. I sat about twelve feet from the bird on the banking capturing frame after frame hoping to get the birds head and the fish at the right angle. This is about a close to perfect as I could get. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering -1 EV ISO 400 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Bill Dix]

A great shot against the dark culvert. I suppose one degree of head turn would be icing on the cake, but this is pretty darn nice. I love the way the heron's eye is focused on his catch, and the fish's head is turned the right way.

[John Robinson]

Bills taken the words from me regardfs the eye looking at the catch. I always feel sortry for fish !!
Dramatic stuff Joe
John