Mr. Grumpy

Sometimes a grumpy attitude isn’t such a bad idea. This heron didn’t really care if I sat 20m away and kept getting closer. Others would have left long ago, but look at the look in his eyes. No worries… just annoyed by those stupid big two-legged creatures that can’t fly. First he hunted and then plucked its feathers. These pictures will be in another post at some point. 

I messed up the shot of the catches – it’s just so hard to get the right moment. The trick would be to just point and shoot long beforehand, but that’s not really satisfying and drains the battery and fills up the memory card. I need to practice more and treat myself to a small tripod, because your arms go numb after you spend 45 minutes snapping pictures behind a little bird like that. Thanks to Tai Chi mode, I ended up only 5-6m away from him.