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Published: 2008-10-01 20:45:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 788; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 0
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I've been wanting some shots of herons for months - and now I have loads!Related content
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Amazing shot! My eye is still trying to figure out if it likes the heron in the lower left or not. I know you can't just ask it to "Duck or Move" but I find it a little distracting, sorry to nit-pick, but you're such an outstanding photographer, that I expect absolute 100% perfection on EVERY shot! lol
Once again, Amazing Shot! Keep it up, hope to see more of what you took this day.
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thanks buddy
as Andy rouse would tell you tho - its a natural element to the shot so why remove it? This is nature photography 
anyway glad you like it
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So very true! Keep up the great work!
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Herons are a big symbol in my life lately. You know how they are solitary birds. WEll, the past 4 months I have see 3 pairs of herons in different places flying together. I wonder what it means. My quizical mind. Love the shot. I like how u can see every flight feather.
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I've never heard that herons are solitary birds. When I was taking these there were at least THIRTY of the things all in the same field.
I know their territorial when it comes to fishing grounds, as my recent egret shots show but I didn't know they were solitary.
Glad you like the shot
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solitary as in they kind of fly alone, they may have the same feeding grounds and where they mate.
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So are you saying that we better avoid any contact with animals because of a heartless fringe group feeding the finacially motivated fringe market of poaching?
The muderous killing of gorillas and other threatened species seems to me to be a very different matter to the controlled hunting (requiring a license) of species who's numbers are in no danger whatsoever. For me most of the real problems facing wild animals are not the individuals killing wild animals purposely (which obviously I disagree with) but the servere damage to ever shrinking habitats caused by development, mining and most of all the farming and fishing industrys. Those are the kind of issues which are faught by animal lovers the world over who might be the same kind of people who feed and tame wild birds in their gardens!
I am talking about the people who go and protect the animals in one way or another and the countless animal lovers who are a constant backing both finacially and politically towards that protection. I stand up for animal rights because of the contact I have had with animals all my life. If I had not fed the birds in my garden and caught the frogs and newts in my pond or played in rockpools as a kid would I have the same empathy towards wildlife? Surely we need people to be more empathetic towards wildlife not less so?
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eeeeer was this directed at me or justin.....methinks the 3am club strikes again
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Justin. I agreed with your comment. I am still attempting to disagree with Justin..... I've given up.......
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thanks
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theres a programme on local south west tv about a guy who shoots birds for the papers etc.....last week he went to a guy on dartmoor who actually feeds a group of herons by hand!
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yeah thats just wrong though - thats taming them and shouldn't be done imo.
Herons are gutted sods and fight with the kites over chicken pieces!
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I'm not sure that Bill Oddie would agree - he is one of the thousands who "tame" garden birds by hand feeding. I would if I could.
Good shot although I find the noise a little too much here.
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My views on it is that humans have interfered too much with taming animals in the wild to the point they it gets them killed because once their tamed they expect other humans to be as caring. Thus the problem with things like gorillas nearing extinction beacuse they trust too much etc.
well you know what I mean
Yeah the noise is due to low light unfortunatly. still usable tho
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I actually cannot think of a case where wild animals expect humans to be caring.
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goto any zoo and see them. gorillas being played with by staff members, deer that will walk up to you and follow you to get food. If you tamed them in the wild they wouldn't be able to survive. They become dependant on people - like dogs.
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yeah they were - descended from wolves [link] and theres also wild ones still around today, [link]
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I know they came from wolves BUT through human breeding - we took wolves into our lives and they bred and gradually became dogs. Therefore they were never wild animals. African wild dogs are a different species altogether
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They were originally wild because they are derived from a wild race, that thanks to our interference now is unable to live without human interference
I thought wild dogs were just that? hmmm bad example there then.
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Anyway this has gone on far too long and probably got out of hand. I do understand the point you are trying to make.
Hope you got some shots this morning. I'm knackered at the mo and have done nothing photographic since the wedding - still processing it but can't bring myself to get through it all.....Ooooh the tedium...
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out of hand? lol. just a discussion buddy
yeah i was out. got a lot of shots and also took dad to monkey world. Stay tuned for shots
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"out of hand" as in gone on too long. LOL.
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And neither are zoo animals??
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I know what you're saying but I still think the advantages of close contact with animals outway the negative side.
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advantages for who? Humans getting photo opportunities or the animals losing their lives after becoming too trusting of the human race? 
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Just more people feeling a closer relationship towards animals and therefore the human race having a better relationship generally with the natural world. If a person has a tame animal which they feel close to aren't they likely to feel closer to animals generally? The closer people feel the more likely they are to want to protect wildlife generally I would think.
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thats the problem tho - it doesn't work like that. Guerillas and pouchers have no sympathy. Game Keepers and hunters of deer have no sympathy despite the fact of having dogs. One set of people feed them and tame them - makes them sitting ducks to hunters as they'll see hunters as no threat and a possible source of food!
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That's awesome ... you can see what the heron is doing to reduce speed and not stall, stay in control and land safe. Whoever said being "bird brained" was an insult?
hehe I struggle to think where you've been today!
Graeme
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Hawk Conservancy 
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Cool can't wait to see! Downside is I've got to get up at 4am... Urgh. Oh well will look again tomorrow...
Graeme
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I have been up earlier lol... and I used to work nights. It's late enough in the year for it to be dark until taking off on the first flight, so just in time to start waking up when you really need to be awake.
By December you've done a whole trip and it's still dark. Urgh. Not even birds awaken when it's that dark... Unnaturel.
Graeme
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