{"id":6646,"date":"2012-11-26T04:39:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T11:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:44:36","slug":"tricolored-heron-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/11\/26\/tricolored-heron-up-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricolored Heron – Up close"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hunting<\/a>Hunting Tricolored Heron – Nikon D200, handheld, f7.1, 1\/750, ISO 200, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 270mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago back I posted a Tricolored Heron in breeding plumage<\/a> and today I wanted to post an image of one in nonbreeding plumage from 2009. \u00a0In this image the heron’s legs are yellow, the eyes are a watermelon pink and the lores are yellow, in breeding plumage the legs are pinkish red, the eyes are a darker red and the lores and the upper portion of the bill are almost a cobalt blue.<\/p>\n

When I photographed this hunting Tricolored Heron I was laying flat on my belly in the shallows where the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico gently lapped the shore. I found that if I laid very still that this heron would approach me very closely, at times it was too close to focus on.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

When I photographed this hunting Tricolored Heron I was laying flat on my belly in the shallows where the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico gently lapped the shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153141,"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":[27,25,704,254],"tags":[4021,4083,4116,37,4153,4077,3970,519,4035,4031,3980,3989,4032],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-tricolored-herons","tag-bird-photography","tag-birding","tag-egretta-tricolor","tag-florida-2","tag-fort-de-soto-county-park","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-hunting","tag-nature","tag-nature-photography","tag-nonbreeding","tag-pinellas-county","tag-tricolored-heron","tag-wildlife-photography"],"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