The Great Blue Herrons are a signal bird, leaving if anything possibly threatening shows up. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:56 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: George Sinos > >> That was at 300mm and cropped just a tiny bit to make the vertical >> straight. I was pretty close. Probably no more than 10 or 15 yards >> away. >> >> I think the birds at the duck pond get used to people. People fish >> there every day. There is a walking path around the pond. Kids bring >> old bread to feed to the ducks and geese. There is a large pavilion >> and playground at one end of the pond where there are a lot of kid >> parties. A little farther away are baseball and soccer fields. So >> there is a lot of "people" traffic. >> >> if you're careful you can get within a few feet of most of the birds. >> >> gs > > > We've got several places like that around here. Mostly flood control > lakes with surrounding parks & green-ways. Ducks & geese tend to become > habituated to people because they're constantly being fed - enough so > that they are becoming a nuisance in some places - but the Great Blue > Herons tend to remain skittish. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
