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TITLE: Bittern walking over twig-strewn ground
INFO: "About a week on from the previous images and I'd returned to Ivy North Hide to try my luck with the Bitterns again - by now it was apparent that there were two Bitterns regularly by the hide, one to the north and one to the south. This is the north Bittern - which was believed to have been a male due to its larger size - which was seen early on but, once again, in its favoured fishing spot behind the tree and out of sight from the north opening window of the hide. After over an hour with just glimpses of the bird, it decided to walk westwards across some more open ground, pausing on alert giving a couple of different shots, this one catching it in a nice pose with one of those huge long-toed feet raised. A bit distant for my lens on full-frame format so I've cropped in greatly for this web image." February 2012 (Ivy North Hide) TECH: Nikon D700, Nikkor 200-400mm f4 zoom lens at 350mm with 1.4x teleconverter, ISO 1400, f8, 1/500 sec. Lens rested on beanbag on hide window sill. Cropped image about 10% of frame (from full-frame FX-format image). |
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