Egret gets its evening meal...

[Bobobird]

Thought it would be fun to complete Peter Phun's (pixel pete) story.
Egret looking for an evening meal

From late last year, never posted.

[DanK]

Superb

[Kodiak]

From late last year…

Very cool panning! I shall not suppose you were invited to share…

Do you know what is a selfish person?
Someone who doesn't think of ME, first! ;-)

[Mike Buckley]

Never posted? Are ya crazy or what?! Gorgeous image!

[Mike Buckley]

Do you know what is a selfish person?
Someone who doesn't think of ME, first! ;-)

Good one!

[deetheturk]

Wonderful capture Bobo!

[Rita]

Beautiful

[terrib]

What a beautiful photo and great panning! I'm glad you now thought to share it.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured form.

[ied]

Beautiful detail. I like the soft colour.

Irene

[bnnrcn]

Great image with nice light and colors

[Bobobird]

Thanks Dan, Kodiak, Mike, David, Rita, Terri, John, Irene, Binnur. Glad you like it.

[Nicks Pics]

Very attractive image. It looks like there is almost no fine detail in the whole picture, yet it's not blurry or off-focus. As if you had pushed the clarity slider into the negatives, did you? It seems to me like a bird photo rendered a little more artistically than the usual.

[Nicks Pics]

Thought it would be fun to complete Peter Phun's (pixel pete) story.
Egret looking for an evening meal

Also a good way to get folks to ignore your post thinking they'd seen it before It happened to me at first.

[John 2]

That's a great capture. Much of a crop?

[IzzieK]

Nicely done, Bobo....excellent shot! I like the clarity of the shot and bokeh is really good that it emphasizes the shape of the bird.

[Bobobird]

Thanks Nick, John, Izzie.
Pic is from Nov 2013. Post-wise no sure now what I did. Softness can be attributed to ISO 3200 and underexposure to keep the whites in check. That combo tends to introduce a bit more noise than a properly exposed shot so a bit more aggressive noise reduction could have contributed too to the softish appearance.

Cropped certainly but at 560mm would not have been that much, certainly under 35%. They do fly by quite close so it was just a matter of waiting and tracking.