Birds Nesting Yellow Crowned Night Heron

[Tappa]

A neighbor let me know about a nesting bird close to their house and wanted me to come see if I could ID it and take some pictures. I headed over there to find a pair of night herons in the process of nest building in a pine tree very close to several homes. I set up my tripod and camera to capture what I could without disturbing the couple. I used an R5 with adapted Sigma 60-600mm set to 600. Here are the results with a fairly heavy crop on the first one.

• Canon EOS R5
• 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports 018
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 4000

• Canon EOS R5
• 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports 018
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 4000

 

[AKVet]

Awesome!

 

[Tappa]

Awesome!

Thank you, much appreciated

 

[freddijay]

You had a lovely find. I assume you will keep an eye out for the nestlings.

 

[Tappa]

You had a lovely find. I assume you will keep an eye out for the nestlings.

thank you and yes your assumption is correct, I'll be checking up on them routinely

 

[Stompthestroller]

Nice set of images