My day went awry in the best possible way. I cut short my bike ride to collect my Fuji X-T5 and take photos of a rare visitor to Waikawa Beach: a Kōtuku | White heron. 🐦

Such amazing birds!

Peekaboo!

@Miraz I do like herons, and I love that in-flight photo! I don’t think we have white herons in my country, at least I’ve never seen them here.

@odd looks like you may have some white egrets (which are herons)

@toddgrotenhuis Yes, and the number of different ones was much higher than I thought! We usually saw the grey ones where I grew up.

PS: Nycticorax would be a nice metal band name!

@Miraz that shot of it flying against the dark backdrop is striking!

@tracydurnell Thank you!

@Miraz
Did you take the picture of the one in flight? Wonderful!

@hugh I did indeed. Thank you! Turns out to be a fairly easy bird to take photos of. 😀

@odd

Nycticorax would be a nice metal band name!

Haha yes!

@Miraz Love, love, love that second shot of the heron in flight. Excellent capture.

@Miraz what a cracking bird and super photos. Like others I find the second one stunning!

@johnjohnston @alexink Thank you both. 😁

@Miraz I'd hang that on my wall any day.

@Miraz That photo of the heron in flight. Fantastic! 👏🏻

@crossingthethreshold 😁

@Miraz Peekaboo 🤣

@Miraz Beautiful photos and video! We see many blue herons in our area but, they are too fast and too shy for me to take photos. :)

@Miraz that second shot is stunning!

@Parag Thank you. I rarely remember I can do video on my camera… 😀

@stupendousman Thank you.

@Miraz Love that second photo. Hope you print and frame it.

@Miraz This made my day! 😸

@pratik Thank you. I'm considering put it on the wall. 😀 Or one of the others from the same sequence…