One camera can't be in two places
Sep. 3rd, 2004 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayreHubby had today off, so we went to Grand Rapids for shopping and lunch and good times together. Naturally chrysalis #1 chose this time to become butterfly #1; the kidlet released it about an hour before we got home. #2 should open this weekend, so hopefully I can get pics of it. (Oh, caterpillar #5 is hanging from the roof of his jar now-- he's the last one.)
But... I'm glad I took the camera. We were driving around in a big shopping area when the hubby looked into one of those lovely landscaped drainage ponds and exclaimed, "there's a white heron in there!" Turned out to be a great egret, not a heron, which makes it one for my lifelist!
After circling around to find our way through the maze of little strip malls, we found the right pond, and I snapped off a few pictures from the car-- only to see it fly away. The blurry line is the car's antenna.
It settled back down about half a mile away; this time I was able to park and walk towards it, snapping pics the whole time.
It used a flap of its wings to add speed as it struck downwards with its head....
... snacktime! (I've been trying all summer to get a pic of a heron fishing-- I'm so thrilled!)
But... I'm glad I took the camera. We were driving around in a big shopping area when the hubby looked into one of those lovely landscaped drainage ponds and exclaimed, "there's a white heron in there!" Turned out to be a great egret, not a heron, which makes it one for my lifelist!
After circling around to find our way through the maze of little strip malls, we found the right pond, and I snapped off a few pictures from the car-- only to see it fly away. The blurry line is the car's antenna.
It settled back down about half a mile away; this time I was able to park and walk towards it, snapping pics the whole time.
It used a flap of its wings to add speed as it struck downwards with its head....
... snacktime! (I've been trying all summer to get a pic of a heron fishing-- I'm so thrilled!)
