Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron

[Atul Sinai]

It was an overcast morning. This young fellow was looking for food. Generally night herons feed during the night. Looks like he didn't find sufficient food during the night. Observed him for about half an hour, he was moving around looking for food. Not sucessful though.

Please critique !

Location: Madkai, Goa
Canon 7D. 400mm f5.6
Manual Exposure
Manual Focus
Manual metering
Shutter Speed 1/500
Aperture 5.6
ISO 1000
Focal Length 400mm
Cropped by 20%
Tripod Support

Thanks!

Regards,
Atul

[Mrudul Godbole]

The raised paw looks nice. Good eye contact. As this is a crop, some more space on the right would have been fine. Thanks for sharing.

[Bibhav Behera]

Nice Image Atul. I like the raised paw. Perhaps a +0.3 Exposure Compensation would have been better here. The composition is nice. The small bit of land near the paw is slightly distracting. Overall a nice image. Thanks for Sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

If that small piece of rock that Bibhav is referring looks like a very colourful croc's head. :) That rock does attract a bit of attention. At times while shooting it doesn't become apparent. A slightly lower angle would have been great. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice image. The raised toe looks nice. Thanks for sharing. SaktiWild.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice image Atul. like the compo.this looks like subadult Little Heron (Butorides striata) .

TFS
Roopak

[Atul Sinai]

Yeah Roopak, this should be little heron. Checked it up again, it appears I had made a mistake in the initial identification.

If this is a little heron, then the behavior was normal.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Mrudul, could you please get that corrected.