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Black-crowned Night Heron, Ocean City Welcome Center, photography, postaday, yellow-crowned night heron
Yesterday was the first time I used my camera to shoot a short video of a Yellow-crowned Night Heron tending to its babies in their nest. It is a little noisy, but here it is anyway so that you can see the interaction between mother and babies.
Going through my files from yesterday, I found one of an immature heron, probably a Black-crowned Night Heron.
Immature Black-crowned Night Heron.
And here’s one of an adult heron carrying a twig.
Black-crowned Night Heron.
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Extraordinary video and photographs. I have never seen a heron baby.
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Wonderful video, I’ve yet to utilize my video functions on my camera…but your work here makes me think that is is something I really should begin to understand better as it ass to this post so well. The juvenile night heron is a great shot, but the last one is simply beautiful.
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You should definitely shoot some videos with your camera. Make sure to use a tripod though to minimize camera shake. Thank you for your kind comment, Randall!
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Look at the hair do on the immature one! Love that image!
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Sue, the young ones go for that Mohawk look these days! 🙂
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Haha good one!
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Lovely pictures and video! You were lucky to find the nest. I have tried too, but no luck so far 🙂
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Tiny, what is unusual about this place is that we stood at the same level, sometimes even higher, and we could look down at all those nests and birds. I wonder if someone planned it that way when they built the causeway.
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I really enjoyed watching the video, but the image of the black-crowned Night Heron with a twig is stunning!
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It must be serendipity. He was just standing there and I saw him suddenly as I did a 180 degree scan with the camera. We were astonished to see each other! 🙂
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Congrats on your first video. I loved seeing the babies with mom.
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Thanks Beth! I’m glad I thought about shooting a video.
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Precious captures! How wonderful to see the babies and mother…
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Thank you Amy! Just like your Woodpeckers with their babies.
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That immature bird photo almost makes the bird look transparent. Very cool!
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Glad you like it, Katelon!
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This is wonderful, Hien. Those babies are so very fuzzy!
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Thanks Lois. Next week, I’ll try to photograph them a little bit older. They grow up fast, not like humans.
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A recorded history–that will be wonderful, Hien. Looking forward to that.
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very nice indeed.. thank you
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Thank you for your kind comment!
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