{"id":24218,"date":"2024-11-17T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T20:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24218"},"modified":"2025-01-01T06:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:13:31","slug":"great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24218","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24220\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021349.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24220\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021349-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021349-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021349-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021349-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021349-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021349.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As mentioned in the previous post, we walked upstream along the Potomac River from Great Falls today. After about a mile on a trail down by the river, we returned to the towpath because a stream blocked our way. We could have returned to the river&#8217;s edge above the stream but we were ready to head back, anyway. A short way back towards Great Falls we saw this great blue heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>) on the canal, posing very nicely for us. I like him (or her, I have no idea which) against the green of the duckweed on the surface of the canal.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m quite pleased with the 150-600mm Sigma lens I got a couple years ago. It&#8217;s a lot to carry but it certainly allows me to get pictures that I wouldn&#8217;t get otherwise. This one was taken zoomed all the way out to 600mm, which when you multiply it by 1.6, gives an effective focal length of 960mm compared to a full-frame 35mm camera. This one was taken with the lens on a monopod, which is how I generally carry it. The exposure was 1&#x2044;100 second at f\/6.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in the previous post, we walked upstream along the Potomac River from Great Falls today. After about a mile on a trail down by the river, we returned to the towpath because a stream blocked our way. We could have returned to the river&#8217;s edge above the stream but we were ready to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24218\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[837,429,61,3670,3309,63,838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24224,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24218\/revisions\/24224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}