{"id":4758,"date":"2012-04-11T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2025-06-14T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T20:04:59","slug":"a-hunting-snowy-egret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/04\/11\/a-hunting-snowy-egret\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting Snowy Egret"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HuntingHunting Snowy Egret – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/2000, ISO 320, Nikkor 80-400mm at 300mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I love the challenge of photographing white birds and getting the exposures right, I like to nail it. Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula<\/em>) are great birds to practice getting exposures of the whites set correctly.<\/p>\n

I photographed this hunting Snowy Egret while it was in a lagoon at Fort De Soto’s north beach<\/span><\/a>. I was in the water with the bird and it ignored me completely, it probably didn’t feel threatened by me because I made myself kneel very still in the warm saltwater. I was able to shoot a very nice series of this egret while it hunted for its prey, now I need to find the time to edit the rest of them!<\/p>\n

The light was at such a wonderful angle that I didn’t\u00a0need to use any exposure compensation, gotta love that!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Snowy Egret photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the challenge of photographing white birds and getting the exposures right, I like to nail it. Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula) are great birds to practice getting exposures of the whites set correctly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,25,704,2000,255],"tags":[4004,5229,5132,743,351,4120,4136,3970,3997,3988,313,3996,1415],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-pinellas-county-florida","category-snowy-egrets","tag-adult","tag-coast","tag-coastal","tag-egret","tag-egrets","tag-egretta-thula","tag-foraging","tag-hunting","tag-lagoon","tag-snowy-egret","tag-wading-birds","tag-water","tag-white-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t