Blue Heron keeps me company.

I'm very spoiled here in Kingston. I can choose any one of a number of locations to pull over for a quick bite and not be alone. On this day, I have a Crispy Chicken to wolf down during a 20 minute respite on my runs, and I have this Great Blue Heron standing on the end of a dock at a nearby canoe club.

Equipment used was my trusty Canon Ef 400mm 5.6L series lens on a 60D, tripod mounted. Image is a 100% crop.

Cheers!

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IMG_9796-2, a photo by Michel (Mike) Soucy on Flickr.

Great Blue Heron takes off from it's perch once it saw our brigh yellow canoe approaching.

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IMG_9867, a photo by Michel (Mike) Soucy on Flickr.

Turkey Vulture spreading it's wings as we canoe past it. It seems that it does this to warm it's body before it flies.

My wife and I fianlly took the canoe out for the first time this summer. I brought two camera bodies (T1i & 60D) with my 400 and the 18-85 IS 5.6, but the wrong size drybag for the bigger lens. The idea is to keep one body/lens in the drybag, secured to the canoe as I'm shooting with the other.

Should we capsize, I lose one and not both. The trick though, is to not capsize! :)

We have a 16' kevlar (Elite 16) from Scott's Canoe. Handling is really nice, weighs only 48lbs which makes handling really nice and easy when I go solo.

I find that a monopod is easier to handle than a tripod from inside the canoe, reaction time is a bit slower though, don't want to start the canoe rocking...been there before. :)

We hope to get out some more this summer and do some exploring.

Cheers!

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IMG_9743, a photo by Michel (Mike) Soucy on Flickr.

On a recent visit to Bluffers Park in Scarborough, had a chance to see this Northern Mockingbird.

As with most...this was shot on a tripod.

Immature Red Wing Blackbird

This immature Red Wing Blackbird found in the cat-tails waiting for a parent to show up.

IMG_0687, a photo by Michel (Mike) Soucy on Flickr.