Green Heron
Do you have a significant other who enjoys that you love photographing birds, AND is quite obliging if it’s safe when you blurt out, “stop the car!” ??
I do and here is one of those instances. 🙂
I saw a perched bird….wasn’t sure what it was….but it didn’t matter….and the words flew out of my mouth.
The easy pull-over and my sprint back to the brush opening to the marsh provided this gorgeous photo-op of a Green Heron.
Photos by Donna 
Nice grab! I like that old rusty metal he is sitting on too. You have a very nice significant other. It’s probably a bit short notice, but you should check out the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife festival later this month. http://www.spacecoastbirdingandwildlifefestival.org/
Thanks, I was very happy with the metal perch addition! I’m not able to attend the Space Coast festival this year, but I know of it and have it on my travel list, soon as we retire! 🙂 Enjoy this year’s event, it has to be nothing less than spectacular! I’ll be watching for your photos.
Fantastic photos, Donna; and excellent support system too. Great post. 🙂
Thanks, Jet, this was an exciting photo-up for me! And yep, hubby’s a keeper too! 🙂
Great captures! 🙂
Thanks HJ! 🙂
Wow! what striking contrasting colours, well shot Donna!
Thanks! The rusty metal perch was an added bonus I thought too. 🙂
Excellent photos of a hard to sneak up on species of bird!
Thanks Jerry, I felt really really lucky with this one! 🙂
Wow, Donna, what a stunner! Thanks to you and your hubby for this one!! 💛💛💛💛💛 What penetrating eyes! I’m so knocked over by nature every day, but your stuff really takes my breath away.
Thank you so much, Laura! I sometimes wonder if one of these days a set of penetrating eyes is going to be moving fast-forward right at me in my lens to attack me, I think I’d fall flat on my tush! lol
LOL!
Great shot! And I’m happy to report that I have a significant other like that too! 🙂
Wonderful! Boy, I do have some funny shots of my husband ‘patiently’ waiting on a walk while I stop to take some photos, got one of him laying on a picnic table, lol. He just chills most times. Or points out a bird! 🙂
These are one of my favorite birds! What fun for you getting these photos. My son has had a few of those “stop stop stop” calls when we go exploring. Thanks for posting – hugs
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Thanks Beth, love hearing you do it to your son too! I’ve got my husband trained so well in stopping, he’ll even pull over if he sees a bird and tell me look look, get the shot, lol. 🙂
Great shot!!
Thank you!!
Amazing shots, so enjoyable. I really appreciated the info you included, things I didn’t know.
Thanks so much, I need to do it more often! Just a little tidbit is nice I thought. And I learn too! 🙂
Clever bird!
Thanks Cornel!
He’s really handsome and such a clever little chap, Donna. I had one in my backyard the other day, and took a photo which I was going to post for My Sunday Photo this week. 🙂
Thanks Sylvia, looking forward to your Florida chap tomorrow! 🙂
Thanks, Donna. 😘
That is quite a significant tool that the heron is using. Good work by the driver.
I wondered what he might be shoveling out of the marsh…. 😉
A good question.
What an amazing capture! Lucky!
Thank you! Don’t you love it when it happens by chance and you’re at the right place right time??!! 🙂
no significant other but I have a friend that I travel with and we both do this often. Just remember to pull over , out of the way.When you said he uses tools, I thought you were talking about the shovel he seems to be perched on.Great capture!
I loved the shovel and thought about how he was pretty smart using that tool, lol. 🙂 Thanks Jane, hope all is well with you!
For photos like these I would pull over and stop any time, night or day!
🙂 I know you have such lovely Montana views, that I’d have to stop every mile to take another photo! Some day!
Great captures dear Donna, I loved them. Thank you, have a nice day, love, nia
Thank you Nia 🙂
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Beautiful shots. They are fascinating birds to watch.
Thank you, I think they are too. I’m not so lucky most times on capturing their photo, they are so flighty. 🙂
I can do you one better. I have a SO who loves birding. He spots birds I don’t usually see except for him pointing them out. Then I get to catch them with my lens. It makes it such great fun to share, doesn’t it? Very nice shot of a very shy bird.
Yep, that’s even better! I’ve noticed my SO has started seeing a bird before me which means he’s ‘looking’. I’ll make him a birder yet! 😉
He’s a beauty, and you’ve caught wonderful images of him. You are the one who identified this bird for me in previous posts – I see these in our marina often.
I see them a lot around marinas also, they must like boats like us. 🙂
He’s very smart looking! And these great photos were certainly worth stopping for 🙂
He is rather smart looking! 🙂
I haven’t lived “stopped the car” because I’m usually driving. My problem is scanning the telephone poles and wires while driving. Great shots.
I like to go off alone so I know about the scanning while driving, lol. Not an easy task! 🙂