photoartflightLittle Blue Heron @ Audubon Swamp Garden
Posted on February 21, 2023
I am going through my collection of Backup Hard Drives looking for images to post on the blog. Now that I am retired I have time to post more often. For this post I am showing a Little Blue Heron on a tree top that was quite far in the distance in the Audubon Swamp Garden at the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in South Carolina. The Featured Image of the Little Blue Heron is a heavily cropped section from the first image below.
Little Blue Heron FlyBy
Posted on March 10, 2022
Another close flyby bird image. This time a Little Blue Heron photographed the same day as my previous post. Image taken at the Brigantine Division of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville New Jersey. Image taken with a Canon 400mm DO lens on a Canon 20D.
Little Blue Heron Images
Posted on December 13, 2021
I was going through backup drives and found a series to post of Little Blue Heron images. Little Blue Herons are some of my favorite Herons to photograph. They always seem to have a very intense look when they are searching for a meal. The Featured Image was taken @ J.N. Ding Darling NWR along the Wildlife Drive with a 100-400mm lens @ 400mm, f/8 on a Canon 7D.
(Image also taken Early am along Wildlife Drive upon Refuge opening)
Assorted Birds From Magnolia Plantation Audubon Swamp
Posted on December 19, 2020
The Audubon Swamp Garden on the grounds of Magnolia Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina is a 60 acre cypress and tupelo swamp. In the past the swamp served as a reservoir for the plantation’s rice cultivation. Now it is an interesting and easy Swamp to walk through on the trails and raised boardwalks to get some interesting images. For Wildlife we mostly saw a variety of birds and quite a few alligators on this visit. Most of the birds we saw were quite far out so even shooting @ 600mm I had to crop the images some. But it was still a Great area to photograph and to just see as we were walking through the Swamp Garden. The landscapes & cloudscapes in the swamp were very interesting also, but that will be a different post.
Little Blue Heron Foraging
Posted on September 2, 2020
I photographed this Little Blue Heron at Magnolia Plantation & Audubon Swamp Gardens in South Carolina years ago. I found this image as I was cleaning up backup hard drives and decided to post it here. Image taken with a 100-400mm zoom lens @ 400mm.
Immature Little Blue Heron Foraging For Breakfast
Posted on August 5, 2019
We saw this Immature Little Blue Heron looking for its breakfast. It was just working an area around us and seemed not to be bothered by the many people around. Just kept searching for a meal. After a few bugs it did finally find a small lizard.
Immature Little Blue Portrait – 400mm f/4 DO with 1.4x teleconverter. Two images stacked and blended in Photoshop.
Snowy Egret Flyby
Posted on January 12, 2018
When I photograph at the J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Sanibel Florida, I like working an area. If you wait and look around you can find photo subjects that basically come to you. If you constantly move around your subjects see you coming and move away. Shorebirds working a Shoreline coming up to you, Cormorants or Anhingas surfacing near you and my favorite, birds flying over or by you. I like photographing birds in flight instead of just sitting there.
Little Blue Heron Flyby, 300mm f/4, 1.4x teleconverter
Immature Bald Eagle, very early in the morning near sunrise. Very little light, and far out in the distance. Severe Crop of image.
More Little Blue Heron Images
Posted on January 9, 2018
Here are some more photos of the Little Blue Heron from a previous post. It was early in the morning with not many subjects to photograph. I came upon this Little Blue along the Wildlife Drive. It was working it’s way through the bushes, above the water. The trees were blocking the sun, so it was fairly dark, so I shot a series of bursts hoping to get a sharper image in one of them. Being in the shade, I was shooting at 1/50 sec at ISO 800, handheld. I do not like raising the ISO on this camera above that, so I got what I could.
Sharp-shinned Hawk (?) Watching Me
Posted on January 5, 2018
As I was photographing a Little Blue Heron early in the morning at Ding Darling NWR, I heard a noise behind me. I turned around and saw this hawk that landed on a branch close by and was watching me. I was using a 300mm lens with a 1.4X teleconverter, so I had to back up to be able to focus on the hawk because it was too close. I was only able to get a few shots before it flew off. But it was fun to see it close by. I believe it is a Sharp-shinned Hawk, but not positive. I always had trouble ID’ing hawks.
My subject I was working on early in the morning, in the shade. A Little Blue Heron in bushes, 1/50 sec handheld, f/8, ISO 800, 300mm w/ 1.4X teleconverter, handheld.
Immature Little Blue Heron
Posted on November 13, 2014
I was photographing a Great Egret by some sticks in the water. Then I noticed the other white bird was an Immature Little Blue Heron. It was fun to see there because you do not see too many in New Jersey, especially in Northern NJ..
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