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Young Heron Flying Around Me

September 29, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 3 Comments

How do you get to shoot a Night Heron in flight? Have one fly circles around you. With an Alligator nearby of course.

These small Herons are pretty fast, and shy.

However this juvenile wasn’t sure where to land, so for a few minutes he didn’t.

I don’t think I have ever captured this many in flight of a Night Heron before, he gave me plenty of opportunities. In several shots you can see an Alligator in the background.

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Young Heron Flying Around Me

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Little Blue In A Garden Pond

September 29, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

Taken in the old Magnolia Plantation garden pond. Actually a small swamp area fed by the pond. It’s not near as clean and manicured.

This Heron is one of a few that stay around the main plantation ponds.

If fishing is good they will ignore people walking by, within reason.

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Odd Spot To Hide, Heron

September 28, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

While going down a dirt road on the edge of water something caught my eye.

The shape didn’t belong but it took a moment to register.

It was wet and chilly so I grabbed a few shots and went on my way.

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Early Morning Great Blue Heron

September 28, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

I think this was the first shot taken this day (last week).

A morning of light rain and low clouds.

There was a time I would skip days like this. It’s fall so this light is what we get so as long as the subjects aren’t moving I just drop the speed low and hope they don’t move.

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Marsh Scene

September 26, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

Once a series of plantation rice fields, now open marshlands.

ACE Basin, South Carolina.

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Where River Meets Marsh

September 26, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

Taken on a ‘not so nice’ day. Actually I didn’t expect to see anything.

This was taken on the marsh side of a long dike. The other side is a river. The Ashley River from here ends just above Charleston, a few miles down river.

Low light, and using a walk around lens that needs it, made for some darker images. However the Herons were not moving around so I could shoot at a slower speed.

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Night Heron On A Trunk

September 25, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

For a juvenile Black-crowned you can’t beat this spot for fishing. Sit up on the trunk braces and wait for something to swim by.

If the water’s not high there may be a place to stand below on the gate itself.

He needs to keep an eye on that pesky ‘camera photo’ critter, but he seems harmless.

I have never leaned over to watch when he drops down the trunk. It’s probably a little tricky with water flowing and maybe an Alligator nearby. I don’t need to make it any more difficult for him.