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Least Bittern
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We were sat in a hide today, sheltering from the hot sun, when this Bittern gave us a fly past.
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Taken on a sunny morning in Suffolk. Difficult lighting and a heavily cropped image. This is the first Bittern image on my photostream, as the previous images I have taken, have been far too distant.
I made a trek to Sierra Valley a few days ago and ran across this American Bittern that was close to the edge of the road. We photographed this fella from our car as he posed still like this for a couple minutes. Couldn't have asked for better light!
Viera Wetlands, Melbourne, FL
Linda accidentally flushed the bittern when she was walking down the road bordering the pond. The bittern flew into an adjacent tuft of grasses. We watched the bittern and after about 10 minutes, it started to look very alert and stretched out its body. We got our cameras ready and it flew low to the place it had originally been. We were ready with our settings and we got the shot. My first time getting an in-flight image of an American bittern. Now, on to the least bittern!
This is an adult male (I think) least bittern, pappa to 2 offspring. I posted one of the offspring on Thursday. I'm always struck by just how small these herons are. This guy was just a little larger than an American Robin or Thrush. This shot was taken about 3 minutes after sunrise and so I had very little light. I had to raise the ISO to 51,200 to get a good exposure. I'd say that Lightroom did a pretty respectable job of cleaning up the noise.
This is the third of six Least Bitterns I caught in flight on Horsepen Bayou that early July morning (11 bitterns total), an adult male that still displays the red nares of breeding season despite the late date.
Far Ings NNR. Lincolnshire, UK.
Hunting for Dragonflies very successfully, but not for the Dragonflies.