Little Egret - Teign Estuary

A delightful Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) flying along the 'Hackney Channel' of the Teign Estuary - in the golden hour of a winter's day.

Hackney Marshes Nature Reserve, Kingsteignton, Devon

Liked by davidstorm kilmas2 pauljay

Uploaded23/02/2018 - 21:50

CategoryWildlife / Nature

BodyPENTAX K-x

Shutter Speed1/500

Aperturef/5.6

LensN/A

ISO400

Focal Length200mm

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Tagsegret little egret hackney marshes teign devon phil hemsley wildlife photography

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Date Taken	20/02/2018 - 16:02
Make	PENTAX
Model	PENTAX K-x
Program Mode	Manual
Metering Mode	Multi-segment
Shutter Speed	1/500
Aperture	f/5.6
ISO	400
Focal Length	200mm
Lens	N/A

GIULIO57 GIULIO57

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Firenze-Italia

Posted 24/02/2018 - 05:24 Link

Nice

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Plus Member hocusfocus hocusfocus

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All the best,
hocusfocus

Posted 24/02/2018 - 17:14 Link

Love the colour contrasts and the nicely-detailed, backlit wings of this gorgeous specimen. Also the highly-textured water and sandbar. Like.

morpheus71 morpheus71

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Posted 24/02/2018 - 17:21 Link

GIULIO57 wrote:
Nice

Thanks Giulio 😊

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morpheus71 morpheus71

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Posted 24/02/2018 - 17:26 Link

go4IT wrote:
Love the colour contrasts and the nicely-detailed, backlit wings of this gorgeous specimen. Also the highly-textured water and sandbar. Like.

Thanks very much for your kind, enthusiastic and considered comments 😊 It was so compliant of the Egret to choose that flight path through those elements of , hues, forms and textures ... sometimes one gets lucky with such confluences. 😁

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davidstorm davidstorm

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Posted 25/02/2018 - 16:39 Link

Superbly shot, very difficult to get one this sharply focused and the bird is in exactly the right place in the frame, IMO. Very well done indeed.

Regards
David

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morpheus71 morpheus71

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Posted 25/02/2018 - 17:33 Link

davidstorm wrote:
Superbly shot, very difficult to get one this sharply focused and the bird is in exactly the right place in the frame, IMO. Very well done indeed.

Regards
David

Many thanks indeed for your kind and generous comments David. By the end of the panning motion of my camera the bird was heading into the low sun directly and not enough time to change the exposure values to make another attempt 😂 Sometimes there's a finite opportunity and I was stoked to have met it.

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