Indian Pond Heron(Breeding Plumage)

[Sucheth Lingachar]

Photographed at Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary ,
Nikon D7000, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/4D IF-ED
F/4, 1/640s, ISO 200

[Shyamala Kumar]

An ordinary everyday bird could look so beautiful when well photographed.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice image. Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

" .........but once it settles down to flight the neck is darted before, but is doubled up and drawn in - that, in fact, is the token by which one may know members of the heron tribe from other waterside birds on the wing."

From 'Lone sentinel of the puddles'- M.Krishnan [Country Notebook:11.11.12]

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Birds are colourful and hence give us much joy even when their calls are not melodious to our ears.

You have used f4, so depth of field is low. From this position, the body is close to us and the head is a few inches away. So the head is not covered by depth of field. This needed a narrow aperture. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Roopak Gangadharan]

nice pose and compo.agree on the dof ,the plumage on the back looks sharp with good details, the head looks soft.

TFS
Roopak