photoartflightFlying Great Blue Herons
It seems like Great Blue Herons just glide along in flight for being such a large bird. They do have quite a wide wingspan from ~ 5.5 to 6.6 ft. They can cruise @ 20-30 miles per hour. So they are fun photo subjects especially if they are flying around a small lake and you have long lenses!
It’s amazing how they can maneuver and balance their long neck-head-beak.
Yes! At times they seem clumsy & awkward!. But at other times they are smooth & graceful in flight! But they are a large bird so easier to get frame filling images of them!
True 😁
Wonderfully series!
Thanks Belinda! They are fun to photograph flying! Especially if they are somewhat close!
Great flight shots, Reed, they are a smooth flyer, I love hearing those wings ‘whoosh’! 🙂
Thanks Donna! I love hearing the “whoosh” of their wings when they are flying close also!
Love the shot crossing in front of each other where their wings make a perfect X!
Yes! It sort of reminds me of the old Star Wars X-Wing fighter! They are fun to photograph when they are flying in pairs!
Actually that is what initially drew my attention and I was originally going to say the same thing but didn’t want to be a Star Wars nerd! Lol
These are terrific flight shots. Their long skinny bodies and outstretched wings are really amazing. Looks like they are really having fun, doesn’t it?
Yes it does look like they enjoy flying around the small lake! But there again I was having fun photographing them!
They’re such incredible, majestic birds!
That fourth picture looks like the rare species Ardea bicephala-tetraptera, the two-headed four-winged heron.
I wish you had not brought attention to that rare bird sighting! Now it will be mobbed for people trying to find it!😊👍