Great Blue Heron displaying on the nest. Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, Viera FL

One of the features of the World Digiscopers Meet at the Space Coast Birding Festival this year was a day long competition with teams of two digiscopers in the field all day. The next day we all submitted 10 images per team for an informal show-down. All that was involved was bragging rights but the day produced some outstanding work. I teamed up with Jerry Jourdan, another ZEISS digiscoper. This shot is from our efforts on the day. This might be the most photographed Great Blue Heron in the world. It builds a nest on this particular palm stump at the Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands every year. The tree is only yards from the berm and tour loop, so it generally attracts a cluster of cars and several long lenses set up on tripods.

ZEISS DiaScope 85FL, 40x fixed wide-field eyepiece, Sony RX100, and the Digidapter for ZEISS. Effective focal length equivalent was 1238mm. 1/1600th @ ISO 400. Processed in Lightroom on my Surface Pro tablet.