{"id":9246,"date":"2013-08-24T03:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=9246"},"modified":"2024-07-22T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:37:11","slug":"a-green-heron-reacts-to-a-broad-winged-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/08\/24\/a-green-heron-reacts-to-a-broad-winged-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Heron reacts to a Broad-winged Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GreenGreen Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park – Nikon D200, handheld, f5.6, 1\/320, ISO 250, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

One morning in 2008 I photographed this Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park<\/span><\/a> in Pinellas County, Florida as it perched and preened on broken branch that was laying in the water. The Green Heron seemed oblivious of me as I photographed it from the boardwalk. In fact It didn’t often even look in my direction. The people walking past me as I laid flat on my stomach on the boardwalk with my lens poking through the slats paid me far more attention than the bird. Of course they were probably wondering what I was doing period.<\/p>\n

\"VeryVery alert Green Heron – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/200, ISO 250, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 260mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly the Green Heron stood up, stretched out its neck, raised the feathers on its head and appeared to stare up into the sky. It really struck a chord in me because the bird looked funny but I kept\u00a0photographing it and watched as it hunkered down on the branch. I was curious about what the heron was looking at so I raised my lens to the sky.<\/p>\n

\"Juvenile<\/a>Juvenile Broad-winged Hawk\u00a0– Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/640, ISO 250, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

High overhead I could make out the shape of a raptor that had flown over the Green Heron and realized that the bird was a juvenile Broad-winged Hawk. It is a terrible photo but I kept it so I could remind myself why the heron struck some odd looking poses.<\/p>\n

When I go out photographing I go with the thought that I never know what amazing things I might see and those wonderful moments happen more than I can keep track of.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

One morning in 2008 I photographed this Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park in Pinellas County, Florida as it perched and preened on broken branch that was laying in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129725,"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":[27,25,2330,2000,883],"tags":[4004,4226,2332,2331,5547,627,626,9465,4104,11823,11822,11824,9464,313,4095],"class_list":["post-9246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-green-herons","category-pinellas-county-florida","category-sawgrass-county-park","tag-adult","tag-behavior","tag-broad-winged-hawk","tag-butorides-virescens","tag-green-heron","tag-heron","tag-herons","tag-maple-swamp","tag-perched","tag-predator","tag-reacting","tag-reacts","tag-swamp","tag-wading-birds","tag-wetlands"],"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