Pied heron
Whilst in the Kimberley I found a group of colourful pied herons catching eel-tailed catfish in a fast flowing stream. I spent hours watching the herons stab the water hoping to catch something. As the catfish have a poisonous barb on one of their fins to the herons had to juggle the fish with their beaks and carefully gulp them down head first so they don’t get stung. This shot is one of hundreds that I captured. I haven’t as yet picked a favorite! Hope you like it!
David Bettini Photographer 
Youdaman of the wildlife stuff mate!
That big puppa of a lense of yours is doing this Heron some justice for sure!
Cheers mate!
I actually used my 300 and not the 600 for this one! It was great to be able to take a bird shot hand-held for a change.
Then the 300 did a great job!
Mark hit it on the head here, this is awesome, how sharp is it and that bokeh, perfect !
Cheers Adrian
Thanks Adrian. I’m really enjoying using telephoto lenses and the bokeh they create is awesome! Cheers Dave
Ripper shot !!!!
5 posts for the year so far , almost one a month , your on fire !!!!
🙂 🙂 🙂
Yea I’ve burning the midnight oil haven’t I? He he.
When are we going out into the wheatbelt/goldfields?
Have a great weekend mate.
Roll your swag, it’s all go !!!
Beautiful crisp clean image Dave, I feel you have done well capturing the heron’s personality in this one too.
cheers,
tone 🙂
Thanks Tone! When you see this pic at full res you also the personality on the poor fishes face as well.
Cheers
Dave
Any more storms over your way Tony?
It sounds brilliant Dave ! what gear did you shoot this with ?
Only ‘coldies’ for the next few months over here , short lived, generally fast moving lower topped storms. So even though they more often than not produce small hail, squalls and and a few bangs, but generally not as interesting or photogenicas the warm convective storms to me.
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Yea not much action over here either. The SW is having yet another dry start to winter. Had 5mm today and more forecast tomorrow but still way behind.
Used a 300f4 and 1ds3 for the heron.
Cheers
Dave
Great to here the story behind the picture, I can relate to it a bit . Glad to hear you got the shot you were chasing. Oh Nice photo by the way.
Cheers Hodgy. It’s all a waiting game isn’t it eh?
Super shot and detail Dave, just superb.
Thanks very much for that Thomas.
Yep as markie said youda wildlife man
Cheers mate!
pretty sweet shot Dave!
had to chuckle at your comment about the fishes personality lol.
great to see that your patience and perseverance paid off with this one 🙂
and Merv’s dropping just a few hints isn’t he 😛
Cheers Stephen. The Mervman alway speaks his mind eh?
Awesome Dave
Thanks mate.
Beautiful photos Dave, I look forward to being able to create shots like that some time soon! It’s a steep learning curve trying to get from beginner to pro!!!
By the way I’ve added you to my blogroll, i hope you don’t mind!
Thanks Jo. Nice to hear from you and cheers for adding me to your site. I’ll add you to mine right away!
Cheers
Dave
Thanks 😉 Constructive criticism would be much appreciated too!
Hey David, awesome image, well done! How’s things anyway?
Any chance of 1 more image before the year is up. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Excellent shot Dave!