Break-o'-Day Prowler

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David Berry

🇦🇺 Australia 🦘
Striated Heron
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Striated Heron : Butorides striata
Wellington Point, Moreton Bay, Queensland, AU


Before heading out across the tidal flats, I scanned the intertidal area for birdlife: gulls (of course), herons, ibises and a few (just a very few) of our migratory shorebirds. With the binoculars stowed for later, I headed for the seagrass patch which was not yet 'dry'. This was the area frequented by the herons.

A Striated Heron flew in, landed around twenty metres from me and, hunching up in its kind's trademark stalk mode, began its search in the golden dawn light for a fresh morsel to devour.

Canon R5m2 | RF 200–800
800 mm | ƒ/9 | 1/2000s | ISO 1600
30 frames/second | ± 17 metres
DxO PR4 | LrC


 
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