Midwest USA. September 2025.
Olympus E-M1+ Oly 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 @ 75mm, f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO-500.
I took these a few days after posting my last heron photos and didn’t want to spam here. A few months went by and I forgot.
I love these birds. They’re so fun to watch wade around and hunt. It would truly be terrifying to be a small fish when this thing has you in its sights.
They are definitely beautiful in the air. When I was a kid when I saw them flying overhead i thought that that was what pterodactyls must have looked like. Their call was what i imagine filled the Jurassic.
As I grew older fishing with them on the bank watching them i saw the beauty of an expert fisherman. Far better than I.