Figure 1 – Great blue heron at the end of summer. Assabet River national Wildlife Refuge, August 30, 2020. (c) DE Wolf.

No trip to the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge is complete without a photograph of a Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias). The one in Figure 1 was captured preening itself against the late summer flowers and the waxing fall color. As I said in my last blog, it was just a picture perfect day.

Good to know that I can still use my birding lens well enough to capture a heron with sharp eye at a distance.

Canon T2i with EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM lens at 365 mm, ISO 800 Aperture Priority AE Mode 1/2000 sec at f/7.1 with no exposure compensation.