A showpiece of note.

He said, Ah! You with the camera again, come and can you never leave a guy in peace?.

I knew that he saw me, but I was at a distance and so I shouted at him to give me a show.

A fun post to show you my version of a Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala) and it's a bit unusual, as he was sitting on a branch cleaning and pruning himself. That first look that he gave me in the first picture, was the most unusual picture that I have ever got of a Heron.
So come and enjoy his show.

Oh! He said, first let me call my agent for permission to model, as I presume that you want the show for free again?

Shame, my agent knows your charity and I worry about that a bit.

I hear that you feed poor people and I worry that you will try to catch me and fry me like you do with the poor chickens, that you feed the street people with. I can assure you that I don't taste half as nice as the chickens do and I eat worms.

Anxiously he stood and watched me.

And the little Double-collared sunbird also watched me anxiously, but I assured the heron that I will never try to catch any of them.

Postscript.

That's where I saw him first, up on a high tree and I switched to my zoom.

Like I said above, just some unusual fun, to bring you a bit of nature's peace on a Sunday. One can never know what one can get on a camera on a walk in nature and let me tell you that I was mightily impressed with that first photo. I have posted heron's before, both on land and at the sea, but it doesn't come close to what I saw here. Obviously, I had to give the heron a voice (in Italics) to tell you his side of the story and with a bit of fun added all tuned out well.

I hope that you have enjoyed the pictures and the story.

And That's All Friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowerShot SX70HS Bridge camera.

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