a touch of color
shy
Posted by e. (New York, NY, United States) on 13 May 2008 in Animal & Insect.
Photo taken in Nara, Japan on December 24, 2007.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. - Shawshank Redemption
Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom
I find these such interesting birds and this place looks like a good spot for a heron to settle.
13 May 2008 6:10pm
Illuci from Hurdegaryp, Netherlands
It's the first time I see a shy heron :). In our local newspaper I saw a terrible photo of a heron swallowing a young rabbit which he had drowned before swallowing it, also the noise they make in their nesting colonies! since that picture I find them brutal robbers, but beautiful and I don't blame them.
13 May 2008 8:34pm
@Illuci: Oh my goodness! I would be pretty terrified if I saw that.
Nikon D40X
1/500 second
F/5.6
ISO 220
82 mm (35mm equiv.)