Green Heron

[Tom Walter]

This juvenile green heron stopped by our subdivision lake at mid-morning one day. He was not skiddish and allowed me to get up close. I haven't seen any green herons at our lake since.

Nikon D200
Sigma 70-300 4.5-5.6 D at 300 mm
Hand held
1/1500 sec at f 5.6
ISO 200

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose and head angle. I would sharpen the bird more and run noise reduction on the BG. A lower angle would have been great.

[Judd Patterson]

Nice find, Tom! These guys can be hard to get close to up in the midwest. I agree that a lower angle would have been nice to provide a cleaner background...particularly reducing the prominence of the big rock right behind the heron. Gotta love those wild feathers on the head of this juvenile!