Great Meadows
I took a walk through Great Meadows recently, these are some of my favorite pictures.
There were Great Blue Herons everywhere (a siege of herons):
This one just caught a fish, we could see it flopping around in his beak:
And this one is moving to another spot. Great Blues in flight are just amazing, I took a whole series of them.
The Red-winged Blackbirds are another common species. I really wanted a picture of one in flight, with both the shoulder patches showing, but that’s a hard picture to get. This guy posed by the path for a long time:
This (unladen) Tree swallow came and sat next to the Blackbird.
A nice spring morning with good company.
Technology
Pictures were taken with my Canon S3IS, handheld. The sun tends to wash out the S3 viewfinder, so some of these were point-pray-and-shoot. Most of the Great Blue pictures were taken at extreme zoom and then cropped, which is why they’re not perfectly focused.