Cattle Egret

[Daniel Cadieux]

Another image I managed at Indian Lakes Estates. A good flock of Cattle Egrets (a few dozen individuals) were feasting on a Mayfly explosion. As I approached from my car many of them would take off, only to land 20-30 yards further down past my car, allowing for terrific flight photography opportunities. I was driving on a vast grassy field off-road, therefore I could idle very slowly forward with both hands on the camera, eyes on the action, and knees on the steering wheel...not recommended for the road though!!

Canon 7D + 100-400L @235mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2000s., f/6.3, ISO 400, natural light, handheld, cropped for composition (~75% FF), an OOF egret removed in post in LRC.

[Jack Breakfast]

It's a pretty one all right and I like the egret's shadow on the wing and the color swaths behind the flyer. Good Lord, man! Your knees were steering a car?!

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Dan, good flight posture, and good job on the whites. Sharp, and I do like how the egret pops from the distant BG. Well captured.

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent flight shot, Daniel.
He gave yoiu a nice head turn.

[Satish Ranadive]

Great flight pose. Loved the flight pose of the Egret ,details and lights.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent! I like the pose and details, exposure and also the feet

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the flight angle, sharpness and composition. Well done Daniel!

[Ofer Levy]

Fantastic image!!!

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Nice job getting the flight pose toward you. I really like the head position, the view of the talons and pretty bg.

[Frank Schauf]

Really nice flight shot and great details.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Excellent flight angle, pose, setting and IQ. I like it a lot.