Green Heron. Anhinga Trail, Royal Palm, Everglades NP

A week in the Everglades gave me many opportunities for Green Heron. Unlike some of the heron/egret species, Green Herons are relatively solitary birds…each staking out its own daily hunting territory and sticking pretty close. Even so, the sheer number of Green Herons, and the richness of the hunting, mean that you see numbers of them along any stretch of suitable water. On the Anhinga Boardwalk, there would be, basically, one every 50 feet or so, sometimes two as close as 30 feet. I like the way this one is stretched out over its reflection. The image is cropped slightly to place the diagonal of the branch in the upper right corner to emphasize the symmetry. (Roy Halpin, who was shooting with me in the Everglades, has an almost identical image of this bird 🙂

Sony HX400V at 1200mm equivalent field of view. Shutter preferred. 1/640th @ ISO 250 @ f6.3. Processed in Lightroom on my Surface Pro 3 tablet.