Great Blue Heron new pose for me?

[NancyMoranG]

Hi all,
This Great Blue Heron landed just in front of me on this stump, just as I was getting ready to leave the beach @ 9 am. I hadn't gotten many good
photos since sunrise and maybe he was rewarding me for my efforts.
He made this 'squat' kind of pose for a while and I have never seen a bird doing this? He let me get closer than I normally am able, so I was happy.
The others are same Heron in great lighting.

Windows editing of crop, contrast, detail and some other things in a minor way as am learning. am watching tutorials for my new PSE 11 as I would like to be able to brighten/color just the feet/beak areas of photos.

Any critique is always welcomed, and editing allowed if you tell me how you did it
Nancy

1- The Squat?

HeronSquat by Nancy Moran G, on Flickr


2- On the stump

EgretStump by Nancy Moran G, on Flickr

3- On the beach

HeronBeach by Nancy Moran G, on Flickrbeach

 

[Desi]

That's one funky pose.

 

[baturn]

Nope , never seen that pose before. Very nice shots.

 

[Derrel]

Looks like the, "I ate a 2-lb loaf of cheese that fell out of somebody's grocery cart," pose.... Weird...

 

[matthewo]

I have seen it a lot. Its the satellite dish pose.


Never did much research to figure out why they do it. I have heard to shade baby's/ shade sun for fishing. But i have seen them doing it just randomly in trees. Maybe they like to dry wings

 

[coastalconn]

Lol, I think he was "Flashing" the tourists

 

[WesternGuy]

Don't think I have ever seen that first pose before. Reminds me a bit of a cormorant when it is drying its wings off. My favourite is the second one and my only comment on that one is about that branch in the background. Personally, I would clone it out as it detracts just a bit from the overall image.

WesternGuy

 

[NancyMoranG]

Personally, I would clone it out as it detracts just a bit from the overall image.

WesternGuy

You mistook me for someone who knows what they're doing !
someone else I showed this photo to said, the pose may be helping the bird disperse body heat or he is warming himself by exposing more of himself to the sun.
altho later in the day it reached 88* again, it was not hot/cool at this time, so ???
thank you all for looking,
Nancy