It was around 08.45 hrs that Bruno and I headed off back down to the flatlands to see if the Purple Heron, we'd found yesterday, was still present. Although Emily wasn't with us, I had made the sensible decision of bringing along the EOS 90d with my 100 - 400 mm IS USM lens fitted. We walked exactly the same route as yesterday and, sure enough, in almost the identical place, the Purple Heron flushed from the side of the drain. I grabbed a few few flight shots before it pitched down some two hundred metres further on. thus allowing me to obtain some more images.
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| A shot taken just after it had flushed for the first time this morning |
I made every effort to give the bird some space, yet having no desire (or permission) to encroach onto the adjacent fields, it was inevitable that the bird took flight again, this time headed off high, to the north.
However, it wasn't more than five minutes later when I spotted it flying back towards our position and, sure enough, it dropped back down onto the drain where we then left it. Absolutely chuffed to be able to rectify yesterday's error and obtain some images which I haven't bettered out on the Greek mainland!
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| Absolutely delighted that I had the chance to rectify yesterday's error. What a great bird? |
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