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DSC_5906 great blue grabs one
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DSC_5906 great blue grabs one

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  • Unusual sighting
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  • Fishes weren’t the only thing the torrential rains from yesterday washed over the falls. The deluge was so massive it apparently even swept this rowboat parked in the marina all the way on the other side of Clove lake over the falls.<br /> <br /> When I saw it I made a mental note to get a shot of it for posterity, and when I saw this great white hunting for trapped fishes washed over the falls, I positioned myself in a nice spot in hopes I would be able to get a shot of it and the rowboat in the background for this highly improbable scene.
  • Night heron's daytime hunt
  • While I’ve seen these guys move around quite a bit from time to time, that’s about all I caught them doing. This time something in his stare told me he came down from that branch, not because he thought he possibly saw something move, but because he definitely saw something move. And given the whole atypical bent of occurrences at the lake today, I prepared for the unusual.<br /> <br /> Setting my camera up for a burst mode, which with this model is 10 frames a second, quite handy for situations like this, I locked in on him closely, and I didn’t have to wait for more than a few seconds to be rewarded.
  • Once he moved into this poise I knew he was going to go in after something. I doubted it was a snail or other tiny creature it usually digs out of the mud, I was betting dollars to donuts it was a fish.
  • DSC_6007 I've got ya fish!
  • DSC_6005 I've got ya fish!
  • Yep, like I guessed it was a fish ( a young sunny). Now given all the mud that was washed into the waters making it quite murky, and how the massive overflow from the first lake over the falls created very turbulent waters, it's amazing the heron could spot a small brown colored fish in all of this in the first place, let alone from up in that tree. But by gum he did.
  • DSC_6016 I've got ya fish!
  • DSC_6017 I've got ya fish!
  • DSC_6018 I've got ya fish!
  • DSC_6019 I've got ya fish!
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