Cleared for Landing

Hello everyone and welcome my post for today.

I'm using the Ecency platform today instead of PeakD that I normally use as it refuses to download images today for some reason.

Today I have images of a Black Crowned Night Heron comming in for a landing at the West end of Woodly Island here on Humboldt Bay at low tide.

This is the first time I've imaged one in flight and head on.

Usually I find them roosting and snoozing in a tree as they are mostly nocternal. I am here early on an overcast morning at low tide and there are several species of birds fishing the tide pools here on the mud flat.

I have hundreds of images to go through and have enough for dozens of posts.

There are about a half dozen Night Herons on the flat but they are all just standing around or flying away from me.

This is the only one that gave me a front end view.

I've been trying to get action shots these days instead of perched or standing around.

I almost missed this series of images but was able to shift over and capture a burst before it landed.

This is a short post for me with six images rather than a couple of dozen or more I normally post but these were the only ones I had of this bird in flight.

Also I've figured my editing software that I bought amost three years ago and can now do batch editing rather than one by one.

This made my editing life so much faster and easier and saves hours of my time =)

I was hoping to capture one of these bad boys acually catching a fish but no joy =(

I did get images of other birds pulling fish out of the tide pools and will be posting them over the next couple of weeks.

Well that's all for today I hope you all enjoyed the shots of this cool hunter,

Enjoy your weekend everyone =)

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Thanks for using Ecency! Sending you some Ecency curation votes!

It's a little different than I'm used to, I wiped out the post and had to rewrite it( no auto save on the draft lol) but it turned out alright on the second try,

Drafts should auto save... I use the mobile app and everything saves as expected. I have never used anything other than Ecency since I joined Hive.

Just found them O,o Oh well it was a short post and I needed the practice anyway lol
Not used to using the platform..... oh just found dark mode as well =)

Explore... And ask if you have questions!

Will do @melinda010100 was also thinking about setting up a channel on my Discord or my TeamSpeak3 account to voice chat (I set these up years ago for video game chat), so much easier than typed chat for info sharing.

Have you looked at Ecency chat? (Top right near notification) If it's we are first time using it you can use the three dot menu to leave any Community chats that you aren't interested in following. I am using voice right now to type this, and use it frequently when I will be typing a long message. You can send private messages, and I am frequently following the ecency and post sharing chat. I'll send you a DM and an invite!

It will not load.... Tried about 6 times and all I get is the msg below, could be ISP almost all my online stuff has been slow and failing, getting error 500, 502 etc. Also 2 of my in game chat services are failing to load as well so I'm thinking it is an internet problem in the area.

Fantastic images! Amazing looking bird. Would love to see it catching a fish.

Thank you for stopping by @omra-sky I do have images of several birds catching fish on this day and will be posting them over the next week or so. I have a couple of hundred images from this day as my camera will bust out 10 images per second. I have images of a Great Blue Heron and a Great Egret catching several fish on that day =)

These photos were fun to look at. Interesting how different their little bodies look with their wings spread wide and their little legs just dangling down.

@jacey.boldart INR =)
Been trying to get that bird in flight forever.
Thanks for stopping by, always a pleasure seeing you.

Absolutely magnificent. What a bird. Great shots. Amazing.

Thanks @agmoore glad you enjoyed the post.
Always glad when you stop by my posts, your words of encouragement are vey much appreciated =)