Great Blue Heron - Samantha Dunn
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Location

Greenough Park
Missoula, Montana, United States
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Map
Map Coordinates: 46.8762695, -113.9762878
Age
Not specified
Sex
Not specified

Observation details

Watched it stalk what I imagine was fish for a while, but it never struck. At one point, a squirrel came along and chittered at the heron for a few minutes, as though it wanted to scare the predator away. The heron stood its ground though, and the squirrel moved on.

Technical information

Model
Canon EOS Kiss X2
ISO
800
Focal length
300 mm
Flash
Flash did not fire
f-stop
f/5.6
Shutter speed
1/40 sec
Dimensions
4272 pixels x 2848 pixels
Original file size
5.01 MB