Reddish Egret Chasing

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From a series of high key shots, a reddish egret chasing a fish in the tidal pool on North Beach @ Ft De Soto.

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Gorgeous. My favourite is the first shot -- one photo certainly where breaking the 'get the eye' rule really, really works! All beautiful shots of an amazing looking bird.
 
Love that last one. Nice job.
Thank you very much, Dan.
Gorgeous. My favourite is the first shot -- one photo certainly where breaking the 'get the eye' rule really, really works! All beautiful shots of an amazing looking bird.
Thank you, the 1st was one of those types of pictures where you can push the art side which may include less photography rules of thumb. Art usually invokes a feeling and to me, the bird looking out into what I imagined as the "unknown" invoked a feeling of curiosity and uncertainty, so I feel it was worthy of a post. We're talking about art here so some people may not have an eye for it but I can appreciate that.
 
Looks like the same or very similar individual I saw there last time doing about the same things. They normally do the wings out for shade mostly standing still thing to feed…I wonder if this is something specific to the DeSoto feeding area characteristics or this individual or simply something I’ve strangely enough never seen before out of a reddish. Then OTOH I watched a Snowy at Apopka last Saturday do almost the same things…and I’ve never seen that either.

Excellent shots…
 
Looks like the same or very similar individual I saw there last time doing about the same things. They normally do the wings out for shade mostly standing still thing to feed…I wonder if this is something specific to the DeSoto feeding area characteristics or this individual or simply something I’ve strangely enough never seen before out of a reddish. Then OTOH I watched a Snowy at Apopka last Saturday do almost the same things…and I’ve never seen that either.

Excellent shots…
Thank you! I've been watching different herons like tricolored herons, little blue herons and snowy egrets do the same since 2014 when I moved down here. I personally think it's just a trait of the heron and maybe the egret family. Maybe I'm just lucky that I'm in an area with a lot of herons and I'm out almost every day to witness their behavior. Here's an unedited shot of a tricolored heron doing the wing thing.
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