{"id":89902,"date":"2020-09-29T06:13:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=89902"},"modified":"2020-09-29T06:13:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:13:36","slug":"green-heron-seeming-to-defy-the-laws-of-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/29\/green-heron-seeming-to-defy-the-laws-of-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Heron Seeming To Defy The Laws Of Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"

This heron was a lifer for me.<\/p>\n

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Technically Green Heron’s aren’t considered to be rare in Utah but they’re close and until six days ago when I photographed this sub-adult at Farmington Bay WMA I’d never even seen one, much less been able to get one in my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

This bird was fishing in the relatively fast flowing duckweed-covered water next to a bridge which accounts for the rather unusual background. While I was watching ‘him’ through my lens the contrasty patterns of bright green duckweed and dark water swirling through the background actually made me a little dizzy. It was a weird feeling to say the least.<\/p>\n

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He specialized in tiny fish as we see in this photo taken while he was in the shade.<\/p>\n

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At one point he came in so close to me I had to shoot vertically when he stood erect.<\/p>\n

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I took a long series of photos of him in this tensed-up posture after he’d spotted a fish but before he struck at it. When I study this shot it almost appears to me like he’s defying the laws of gravity. His center of gravity seems to be so far forward that he should topple over on his face but he didn’t. And this isn’t a motion shot where he’s in the process of striking, I have at least a dozen photos of him in this position.<\/p>\n

I realize that his upper leg attachment to his body is further forward than it might appear, but still…<\/p>\n

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After 13 years of looking for and photographing birds I rarely get a lifer anymore so the 56 minutes I spent with this heron was a hell of a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Technically Green Heron’s aren’t considered to be rare in Utah but they’re close. This one was a lifer for me. <\/p>\n

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