The Companion

So I was at Wharf 2 (aka Pier 2), Walsh Bay, on Sunday afternoon & evening, 26th May, 2024. I climbed up the fire stairs at the northern, harbourside, end of the wharf where there is a little platform - from which I take many of my harbour sunset photographs.

 

This bird (as pictured above) arrives shortly after I got there, and stayed the entire time I was there - and I stayed into the early night-time to get the Vivid Sydney colours on the western, Walsh Bay, side of the bridge.

 

How absolutely bizarre!! So I talked to it (even more bizarre, lol) and moved quite close to it, inferring it might like to get out of the way of the photos. But belligerently it did not move!!

 

I have since consulted my 'Complete Guide To Australian Birds' (by George Adams) where, on page 95, it looks like a White-faced Heron.

But I am not an expert, lol. In any event, I am calling it 'The Friendly Heron'.

 

My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L lens.

 

Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.

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