Black-crowned Night Heron

[The Barbarian]

Trinity river bottoms Dallas

 

[dxqcanada1]

Hmm, what Post Processing did you do (to the background) ?

 

[Robin Usagani]

I shot similar bird. Is it the same thing?

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/nature-wildlife/285375-shot-bird-whatever-you-call.html

 

[SCraig]

I shot similar bird. Is it the same thing?

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/nature-wildlife/285375-shot-bird-whatever-you-call.html

Yes, it's the same thing. DAMN IT! Everybody gets good shots of them but me!

Just kidding, of course. There is one that lives on an island in a lake here in Nashville, and it can read my mind. I've seen it a half dozen times when my long lens was at home yet any time I take my long lens it's nowhere to be seen. It's really annoying

 

[The Barbarian]

I don't do anything specifically to get that background. It's OOF, of course, and I suspect that diffraction between the leaves may be part of it. The shot is an HDR, but that didn't seem to do much. Here's the shot from which the Jpegs were made:

 

[dxqcanada1]

Ah, the HDR makes the background look odd.

 

[raygunboost]

Agreed