My day went awry in the best possible way. I cut short my bike ride to collect my Fuji X-T5 and take photos of a rare visitor to Waikawa Beach: a Kōtuku | White heron. 🐦
Such amazing birds!
Odd-Egil “Oddzthrash” Auran I do like herons, and I love that in-flight photo! I don’t think we have white herons in my country, at least I’ve never seen them here.
Todd Grotenhuis @odd looks like you may have some white egrets (which are herons)
Odd-Egil “Oddzthrash” Auran @toddgrotenhuis Yes, and the number of different ones was much higher than I thought! We usually saw the grey ones where I grew up.
PS: Nycticorax would be a nice metal band name!
Miraz Jordan @hugh I did indeed. Thank you! Turns out to be a fairly easy bird to take photos of. 😀
Alexandra Wolfe Love, love, love that second shot of the heron in flight. Excellent capture.
John Johnston what a cracking bird and super photos. Like others I find the second one stunning!
Parag Beautiful photos and video! We see many blue herons in our area but, they are too fast and too shy for me to take photos. :)
Miraz Jordan @pratik Thank you. I'm considering put it on the wall. 😀 Or one of the others from the same sequence…