ooh those Great Blues are here again

[JR777]

Hello everyone,

I am new here to FMN. I've been enjoying the site a little while now and thought I would share some pics with you all. My name is James Riss, I live in Hutchinson, MN. Right by Mike Meyer who also is a member here.

[LPCrowRiverFisherman]

I've also saw one this year, I live on the Crow by Lester Prairie.

Those are a couple great pictures.

Welcome

[Bulldoggr]

Nice pic's and welcome to the Forums.

[MN Shutterbug]

Welcome aboard, JR. Thanks for sharing the nice photos.

[Dbl]

Welcome from me as well JR777. Nice heron photos!

[JR777]

Thank you guys. I was unsure how things would turn out as far as the pictures went because I've recently switched to Mac.

[finnbay]

Welcome, and some nice photos! These guys are hard to get close to!

[polarsusd81]

Great job on the Heron JR. Also, welcome once again from me. Looking forward to seeing more.

What kind of equipment are you shooting?

[Steve Foss]

JR, welcome in here. Great to see you here. I'm also a Mac guy. Nice shots of that heron. Really cool with the snow, too.

[JR777]

Photos taken with Nikon D300 and Nikon 400mm f2.8 manual focus lens

with 2x teleconverter.

[polarsusd81]

I figured you were using some pretty high end equipment. Those photos are superb.

[MN Shutterbug]

Should have figured you for a Nikon guy, considering you live in Hutchinson.

Wow, 400mm with 2X in manual focus?

[mountaindew]

JR777, First of all, Welcome!

Those are awesome shots! Very nice colors! Checked out the Nikon 300 before I got the canon 40D. It's a great camera!

[mmeyer]

Nice work there James! Welcome to the forum, glad you decided to join us.

[dukhnt]

Welcome. Nice shots. I just moved to Hutchinson and was watching those herons come by one right after the other on Friday.

[JayinMN]

wow, those shots are awesome. Welcome to the board, can't wait for you to share more pictures.

[MN Shutterbug]

 Originally Posted By: dukhnt

I just moved to Hutchinson and was watching those herons come by one right after the other on Friday.

Ohmigosh, that makes 3 talented Nikon shooters in the same town. This is almost scary. At least you 3 should always have someone to go shooting with.

[Steve Foss]

Yep, great to have more Nikon folks in here for sure. Plenty of ways to capture great images that don't involve the thunder of a Canon.

Pretty sure that's five Nikon DSLR folks posting in here now. Good company for buzzsaw, too.

[mmeyer]

Yeah we're sure the minority. We're building forces and will soon be attacking your canons!!

[mountaindew]

I figured that since it's the Blue Heron post, I hope you don't mind me posting what I took 2 days ago. I took these on my lunch break along with the Mergansers ducks I took. On the way there, there's a tree there that's always a "Heron's Tree" there for years. It's like 8 nest there on one tree. I figured that I'd try take a couple of shots of them.

Hope you don't mind me posting additional pics of the heron birds.

This was taken with 100-400mm

This was taken with the 2x converter on 100-400mm, 800 focal length.

[JR777]

Awesome! I did not know they nest that high in trees

[HARDTIMES]

The Dayton road runs along mississippi riverhas about 100 nest in the trees along that road.