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563a Ardea alba Breeding display posture

Extremely rare for me to get a bird that is completely exposed down to the feet. When they go about their performance, they rock back and forth and do deep knee bends after lifting their head up high. And if there is any wind, then the plume feathers get blown out of arrangement. So it is quite difficult to compose a decent close up frame where nothing is out of the frame.

 

I don't usually assign anthropomorphic catch lines, but he looks like he is thinking, "I'm busy here, do you mind?". He left the scene immediately after this shot.

 

 

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Uploaded on June 11, 2023
Taken on May 7, 2022