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1/1000 f/6.3 400.0 mm ISO 200

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OLYMPUS M.100-400mm F5.0-6.3

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Little Egret
Keith Burton


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Little Egrets

Taken on the Mill Pond at Langstone Harbour, Hampshire. I normally see these roosting in the lower branches of some trees at the rear of the pond. On this day it was bitterly cold and very windy and they have moved to another section of the pond to take cover behind some foliage, which also enabled me to get a bit closer to them. Even with the 400mm reach of my lens, this is still cropped a little.

There's a cropped image of another bird in the PiP.

Please view large on black. Thank you.

Jean-luc Drouin, Gudrun, Colin Ashcroft, Aschi "Freestone" and 15 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 trester88
trester88 club
Eine sehr schöne Szene! Das Licht wirft schöne weiße Flecken auf das Wasser.
Ein toller Schuss, Keith!
4 years ago.
 Keith Burton
Keith Burton club has replied
In the warmer weather it's not unusual to see a dozen or so of these in the trees around the mill pond and usually a heron or two as well. You definitely need a long lens to get decent photos though! You can't get any nearer as (quite rightly) it's a protected nature reserve!

Glad you like the pics........and thank you.
4 years ago.
 Keith Burton
Keith Burton club
Thanks for dropping in folks................always appreciated..!!
4 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
You managed to catch them well! They would have been too away far for my 280mm...
4 years ago.
 Keith Burton
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Thanks Gudrun. Using the 100-400mm is a work in progresss at the moment. At f5.0-6.3 it's a fairly slow lens that ideally needs good light or a high iso to be effective. Because of the Micro Four Thirds format it's the Full Frame equivalent of a 200-800mm.
4 years ago.

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