I was driving through the park one day.
In the merry, merry month of May.
I was taken by surprise,
By a pair of roguish eyes.
In the merry, merry month of May. 🙂
Actually, I was driving through our downtown city park on the Concho River. I had just finished photographing some young Great Blue Heron chicks on their nest. I happened to glance across the river, and there was this (here it comes) pair of roguish eyes of a Black-crowned Night Heron looking at me.
Black-crowned Night Heron
Here it is sitting in the tree branches contemplating this beautiful day in May.
Black-crowned Night Heron
He gets alerted to something. He stands up on the tree branch and looks around. (with those roguish eyes, of course.)
Black-crowned Night Heron
Whatever has distracted him has made him restless, and he decided to fly away on a lovely day in the merry, merry month of May.
Photographed with my Canon EOS 7D and 500mm lens with a 1.4 tele-converter, tripod mounted. Exposure about 1/1250 sec. @f6.3, -0.3EV, ISO 160. Click on any image to see an enlargement.
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