Love the clarity of the eye. It's always a real challenge (for me, anyway) to get more than a black blob on a bird's eye.
Being close, and having the sun or flash there helps, I suppose!
Thanks Tim and Kermey.
No flash, and I actually had to back up because I had a 400mm lens on the old film camera.
I'm not sure if it's my doing, but the appearance of the beaks of egrets and herons always seems a bit odd to me. In color AND in B&W.
Charlie