A couple pics from today

[Robert_in_NY]

First pic is a heron my father found. It has a bad leg as it either flew into something or a snapping turtle may have caught it. Either way, it gave me an opportunity to get some nice pictures.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

A couple more pics of the Heron

 

[Robert_in_NY]

here is some of Ava feeding a few of our deer

 

[gotrocks]

Robert,
Thanks for the great pictures, especially the heron. We are bird watcher and those are a great "study".

I would like to know what camera you used.

PS
to all else who read this, if you post pic it would be a good addition to add to one's profile. I'm going to do that right now.
Sony DSC-S70 purch 2001

 

[nate_m]

Robert,

Nice pics of the heron.

We have one that visits our pond occasionaly. Truly an amazing predator. Fun to watch on the hunt especially when it finds its prey. I tried to snap a few pics of ours once after it caught a sunfish that was about 5 times the size of its head. Too bad it was raining and the pics were too fuzzy to see the detail of the sunfish shaped bulge in the herons neck.

 

[EddieWalker]

Robert,

Awesome pics!!!!!

That big buck of yours is going to start making you some real money with the rack he's growing this year!!!!! Hope you're not the one who has to draw the staws. hahahaha

Eddie

 

[RobS]

Very nice Robert, thanks for posting!

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Robert,
Thanks for the great pictures, especially the heron. We are bird watcher and those are a great "study".

I would like to know what camera you used.

PS
to all else who read this, if you post pic it would be a good addition to add to one's profile. I'm going to do that right now.
Sony DSC-S70 purch 2001

I have quite a few camera's so listing them all isn't going to happen. But the pics in this thread were taken with a Sony DSC-F828

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Robert,

Nice pics of the heron.

We have one that visits our pond occasionaly. Truly an amazing predator. Fun to watch on the hunt especially when it finds its prey. I tried to snap a few pics of ours once after it caught a sunfish that was about 5 times the size of its head. Too bad it was raining and the pics were too fuzzy to see the detail of the sunfish shaped bulge in the herons neck.

We have a few herons like this one here all the time as well as green herons which are a lot of fun to watch. They play in the creek mostly though

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Robert,

Awesome pics!!!!!

That big buck of yours is going to start making you some real money with the rack he's growing this year!!!!! Hope you're not the one who has to draw the staws. hahahaha

Eddie

We have never got into selling straws so I do not have to worry about collecting

We plan to use him as the main breeder buck this year but he gets real mean when he goes hardened antler. So we have to be careful where we put him and who takes care of the pen.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Very nice Robert, thanks for posting!

Thanks, and your welcome

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evenin Robert,
I really enjoyed the pics of your daughter feeding the deer ! Very nice, thanks !

 

[czechsonofagun]

Love the pictures, especially the heron. We have few in our and neighbors pond and they are such elegant birds.

 

[Cottonhawk]

Robert,
Nice pics. You must be an accomplished photographer.
It is amazing that you have your own deer eating out your daughter's hand.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Robert,
Nice pics. You must be an accomplished photographer.
It is amazing that you have your own deer eating out your daughter's hand.

I don't know about the accomplished photographer comment but I do enjoy taking pictures and I try to buy quality equipment which makes a huge difference.

These deer were hand raised and this time of the year are huge babies. This one is a yearling and was one that Ava spent a lot of time with last year as a fawn (they are buddies)

And here is another of the bigger guy trying his best to get to Ava's corn

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

cool photos.......these photos are the reason we want to get back to the country....

that hering reminded me of when i was about 12......we used to fish at the pond behind our house....it was up on a hill......one day i was walking up the dike and just as my head popped over and the pond came in to view, and i don't know whether i startled him more, or he startled me more, this HUGE bird took off and flew away.........i was so excited wanting to tell everyone......i thought i had discovered some extinct dinosaur bird or something......

he would come back every now and again, but he was always skiddish...

thanks for sharing!

 

[wjoerob]

A blue heron decided we had provided a smorgasbord in our little pond, very nice of us. Spent some change to stock it with small fish. Every time I would come home, pull up over the hill, Blue Heron would go flapping away over the trees, kinda lazy-like, usually with a small fish in his beak. I could almost hear him saying, "Thanks, I'll be back for lunch tomorrow!"

 

[weldingisfun]

A blue heron decided we had provided a smorgasbord in our little pond, very nice of us. Spent some change to stock it with small fish. Every time I would come home, pull up over the hill, Blue Heron would go flapping away over the trees, kinda lazy-like, usually with a small fish in his beak. I could almost hear him saying, "Thanks, I'll be back for lunch tomorrow!"

We had the same problem. Solved it by putting netting around and over the fish pond. Doesn't look real pretty but at least we still have fish to watch.