The Great White Egret and Great Blue Heron are Not Friends by grannysue

The Great White Egret and Great Blue Heron are Not Friends

Blue Heron chases White Egret. Competing over fishing rights. The Blue Heron finally gave up and left as more people came to the park and he was afraid of them. The Egret stayed around and I provided the "bait" for him to catch his fish. Check out the other chase photo on my Extras page.
Thank you for viewing and commenting. Thank you for all the comments and fav's on yesterday's shot of the Great Blue Heron. You are awesome! I appreciate you very much and enjoy looking at everyone's photos.
Wonderful capture, Linda! What a cool thing to witness and you got the shots!
May 30th, 2012  
yes they are not friends but they play together on the grass......nice capture....both are taking off....nice shot Linda!!!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2012  
Awesome
May 30th, 2012  
There are an awful lot of long legs in this shot and a lot flapping wings!
May 30th, 2012  
Great Action Shot Linda I like all of their feather's!!
May 30th, 2012  
awesome capture
May 30th, 2012  
Awesome action shot - great capture!
May 30th, 2012  
so they are not ever friends, any of them, or just these two? nice action going on!
May 30th, 2012  
Brilliant Nature shot Linda
May 30th, 2012  
Nice action shot here, Linda.
May 30th, 2012  
nice photo Linda nice colours. Gerry.
May 30th, 2012  
Must have been interesting to watch the rivalry! The birds look beautiful. Great moment here, well captured!
May 30th, 2012  
Great timing on this fun action shot, Carol. 2 beautiful water birds!
May 30th, 2012  
Very nice capture to get both birds in focus and what looks like a deep DOF at a relatively wide open aperture setting Linda!! Maybe I'll experiment more using shutter priority and allow the camera to set the aperture and see if I get better results.
May 30th, 2012  
Oh how nice to get a shot of both. Wonderful action caught.
May 30th, 2012  
wonderful capture!
May 30th, 2012  
Wow. Great shot and interesting story line going on between these guys.
May 30th, 2012  
Wonderful capture they look like their haveing a lot of fun dancing
May 30th, 2012  
Wow--what a tremendous capture. I can't believe that you kept it all in focus. GREAT JOB.
May 30th, 2012  
Looks like they are dancing! Cool capture!
May 30th, 2012  
This is a very cool shot, great you could photo the both of them.
May 30th, 2012  
Great capture.
May 30th, 2012  
Great capture of both birds. Interesting to read the lines of those birds behaving
May 30th, 2012  
These are actually the same bird, just with different coloration. My youngest daughter rescued a great white egret once.

ps thanks for the follow!
May 30th, 2012  
fantastic capture, you did a good job
May 30th, 2012  
Great catch!!!!
May 30th, 2012  
Wonderful capture xx
May 30th, 2012  
@revjoel Thank you for the comment. They are from the same species or family. There has been debate on whether the Great White Egret is just a color morph of the Great White Heron or if one is a subspecies.
May 30th, 2012  
Fantastic capture!!
May 30th, 2012  
Great capture Linda!
May 31st, 2012  
wow, great action shot! i'd be happy to get one of these birds in a shot, lol
May 31st, 2012  
@vickisfotos I don't know whether they are ever friends. I think they were arguing over territory - fishing rights. It is a small pond. The Blue Heron is a newcomer to this duck pond, this is at least the second year that I have seen the White Egret. I felt sorry for the Blue Heron and tried to help by throwing plenty of bread for bait into the water but it did not act like he knew what to do.
May 31st, 2012  
@skipt07 Skip, these birds are so fast that I have to set my T1I on the sports (auto) setting so that it will rapidly snap. The thing is to get a good focus on them in the beginning and be able to keep up with them, hold your breath and hope it stays well focused. Anyway, that's my theory.
May 31st, 2012  
funny how the mother instinct in us takes over and we try to help out...
May 31st, 2012  
so cool!
May 31st, 2012  
Oh my goodness...how do you get these shots??? They may be fighting but it looks like they are dancing!
May 31st, 2012  
@wannabe Just got lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
May 31st, 2012  
Another fabulous action shot, Linda! I'm a huge fan of birds, and your's are so majestic.
May 31st, 2012  
Magnificent!
June 1st, 2012  
I am sorry I have missed so many of your photos. Trying to catch up still. Love this photo. It is great of the two of them and the clarity is so incredible.
June 4th, 2012  
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