Shasoc wrote:
So, you do have blue skies in Seattle!
Very nice job on these, Tim. GBH have a very cool, almost ceremonial behavior building nests and it is always fun to watch them.
I like #4 best, even if the whites look a bit hot
Well done, my friend.
Socrate
Yes we do get blues skies here
Thanks for the good words Socrate The whites in 4 are pushed to 255 in post as a side effect of some other luminosity pushes. They are as high 250 in the RAW file so it's close
OwlsEyes wrote:
Great shots Tim... the first is my favorite!
Sadly, the late spring in MN has made it impossible for me to do my annual heron rookery work. It's one of my April highlights... getting on a canoe and paddling out to the island where the birds next in seclusion. With ice on the St. Croix late and then the sudden leaf-out, it became an impossibility for me. So, I will live my fun vicariously through your great work.
cheers,
bruce
Thanks Bruce! Sorry to hear about your ice/spring woes, that sucks
acjd wrote:
So you are saying the eagles destroyed the young herons Wow didn't know that. I ask because at Teds pond there is a huge heron rookery with hundreds of herons that seem to peacefully coexist with 3 to 400 eagles in a confined space in the fall. Even now there are some eagles there. Interesting.
Good work as usual
Yes, BE's commonly raid Heron rookeries, at least around here. So badly in fact that in one rookery location there used to be a BE nest nearby and they routinely wiped out the Heron nests much to many's dismay. The Eagles in this case were eating the eggs but other times they will eat the young. It's easy pickings as the adults fly away when the Eagle comes on the scene. BE's are lazy, I guess by Ted's Pond there is something else for them to eat that is easier pickings
Lucky you to have something so close and relatively accessible. Super shots of moving day!
I do like the non-uniform skies which really makes the image much more interesting than just a bird on a blue background...but knowing the weather in Seattle, I guess pure blue is a bit of a rarity most of the year!
Eric
Great looking set Tim. Out of curiosity, the last shot with the branch with live foliage, did the Heron actually break that limb off a live tree? The leaves in #4 look to be withered a bit so I would guess that limb was already on the ground.
CDaescher wrote:
Always good to have a location like this close to home.
Very nice shots, Tim. There's something about the "hanging up in the sky" pose in the first image that I like very much.
Looking forward to see more.
Chris
Thank you Chris, I agree with you about the first one
The whites in 4 are pushed to 255 in post as a side effect of some other luminosity pushes. They are as high 250 in the RAW file so it's close 
Wow didn't know that. I ask because at Teds pond there is a huge heron rookery with hundreds of herons that seem to peacefully coexist with 3 to 400 eagles in a confined space in the fall. Even now there are some eagles there. Interesting.