{"id":144392,"date":"2023-10-07T05:55:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=144392"},"modified":"2023-10-07T07:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T13:00:42","slug":"great-egret-a-stike-and-a-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/07\/great-egret-a-stike-and-a-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Egret – A Strike And A Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the Great Egret that’s been hanging around the Bear River east of Bear River MBR for some time now.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 320, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve found ‘him’ in the same general vicinity on my last three trips to the refuge, including two days ago when this photo was taken. This bird and an unusually aggressive Great Blue Heron<\/a><\/span><\/span> often duke it out for fishing rights on that area of the river but on this morning the two of them were several hundred yards apart and ignoring each other. For the moment at least.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this photo was taken immediately after the egret made a strike on a fish. And missed. Photos of fishing egrets and herons are a dime a dozen but I like this one in part because it’s rare for me to get such a low shooting angle on fishing birds, especially large ones.<\/p>\n

Immediately after the egret missed the fish, a fisherman in a pickup drove quite a distance past me on the road going west, turned around and came back, and then pulled in right in front of my pickup and parked. Then he got out of his truck to retrieve his fishing gear from the back and go fishing.<\/p>\n

The second he opened his door and got out of his pickup…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 320, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

this was the result. The egret vamoosed and disappeared to the west.<\/p>\n

Thanks guy.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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PS – I thought it was interesting that in the photo above the egret had fully deployed the alula<\/a><\/span><\/span> on his left wing but not the alula on his right wing. I’m not surprised but I still thought it was interesting.<\/em><\/p>\n

And I still don’t know if birds have control over their alulae or they deploy automatically in certain situations.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is the Great Egret that’s been hanging around the Bear River east of Bear River MBR for some time now. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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