Wednesday, May 25, 2011

At the rookery

GREAT BLUE HERON (ARDEA HERODIAS), ONTONAGON, MICHIGAN, MAY 22, 2011

Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 ED (IF)
1/2000 sec. f8
ISO 1600

The proper term is "heronry," but the locals know this spot in a swamp several miles southwest of Ontonagon in upper Michigan as "the rookery." We counted seven nesting Great Blue herons there the other day, and as always I wished I had a really long (such as 600mm) lens instead of having to crop the hell out of a shot taken with a 300mm. All the same, the results seem acceptable.

1 comment:

greenhermit said...

This looks just exactly like the rookeries in the diametrically oppositely located Cajun swamps of southern Lousiana - except I do not see any alligators eyeballing errant fledglings up there in Ontonagon. Laissez les bon temps rouler.