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- Grey Heron identified by its black cap and overall grey colour. They have an amazing ability to remain dead still for extended periods. Highly focused hunters.
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- Green-backed Heron normally very shy and only flushed out of hiding at the last second. Sometimes you can be lucky and it hangs around just long enough for a shot.
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- Grey Herons are slow flyers in still air conditions and therefore reasonably easy to capture a reasonable in flight shot. Backgrounds are always an issue if they don’t fly up to give you blue sky background.
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- Squacco Heron hunts on the Chobe River.
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- Purple Heron on finals with full flaps, air bleeding off trailing edge of primaries, alulas fully out and undercarriage lowered.
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- Grey Heron taking off to give blue sky backgrounds.
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- Unusual background (deep shallow far behind) for this Squacco Heron in flight.
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- Black Heron (used to be called the Black Egret in the old days). Stunning yellow feet and a unique umbrella method of hunting. I am still trying top get a good shot of the fascinating hunting action.
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- Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron. Usually come out in late afternoon in preparation for night hunting.
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- Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron in the late afternoon on the Chobe River.
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- Grey Heron
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- Purple Heron on top of trees overlooking the Chobe River.
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- Not often you can look down on a Purple Heron in flight. You will always have problematic backgrounds from this perspective.
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- Green-backed Heron hunting.
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- Purple Heron hunting – can stay dead still for long periods.
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- Acrobatic Squacco Heron hunting but just needed to stretch for a second.
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- Adult Black-crowned Night Heron in the late afternoon on the Chobe River preparing for its nightly hunting routine.
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- Golath Heron drying its wings.
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- Golath Heron resting just like a stork.
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- Black Heron using its unique umbrella hunting technique. The fist swim into the shady area thinking they cannot be seen
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- Those striking yellow feet of the Black Heron – it looks as if he stepped in a tin of yellow road-marking paint
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- Black Heron is usually darker and has yellow feet and not the greenish legs of a Slaty Egret. The Slaty Egret has a slightly reddish throat too.
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- This Squacco Heron was flying passed us on the boat in the Chobe River.
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- Green-backed Heron sitting on a dead tree trunk lying in the water at Lake Panic in Kruger Park.
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- Green-backed Heron preening itself on a dead tree trunk which was lying in the water at Lake Panic in Kruger Park.
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- Black Heron in full hunting mode-umbrella style
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- Black heron spreads its wings over its head for form an umbrella which creates a deep shade patch in the water. This fools the fish into thinking they are safe in the deep shade.
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- Unique Black Heron fishing technique
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- Black Headed Heron
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- Black Headed Heron coming in to land at Marievale
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- Black Headed Heron in flight at Marievale
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- Black Headed Heron in a more unusual pose. That neck is so flexible.
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- Black Headed Heron about to touch down in Marievale
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- A Squacco Heron disturbed by our boat. They fly up from the reeds where they were feeding only to landing ten or fifteen metres further away.
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- Green-backed Heron standing in front of a background in deep shade – you don;t often get this type of subject emphasis but it works really well.
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