Mike Hoff Photo

I got up this morning at 6:30 intending to go to the Tulpehocken Creek and see if there would be any good shots as the sun came up. I was expecting to do mostly landscape stuff, so I had my Sigma 17-70 on my Canon 40d. As I walked down the path I looked to the near side of the creek and about 10 yards in front of me sitting on a lot was a blue heron. I knew I wouldn’t be able to get close enough with the 17-70 so I backed off a bit to switch to the 70-200. As I did this the bird flew further down the creek. I caught back up with him and shot as much as I could, only this time he was on the opposite bank. He took off again and out of 10 frames I managed to get 1 decent one of him in flight.