Grey Heron with Perch

[Rich Steel]

Hi

A recent grey heron photo. It was an interesting one to watch as these usually wary birds allowed me to watch at close range without a hide (blind). I watched the whole episode from landing, followed by stalking to eventually swallowing the fish. The background is a bit messy as the bird was in a small reedbed but a memorable experience to watch this bird hunting at close range.



Taken with 1Dmk3 and 300mm F4 at ISO250 F8 -0.67EV at 1/640s.

Cheers

Rich

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great portrait, details and the fish adds to it. Too bad the BG is not cleaner.

[Tony Whitehead]

Sounds like a great experience you had, Rich. Love the colours. Might be worth doing some work on the BG to darken down the lightest stalks.

[Rich Steel]

Thanks for the replies. Yes the background is a shame but ytou can't have it all. I might have a play with the background in PS to see if it can be improved.

Cheers

Rich