Post by BuckSkin on Sept 14, 2021 11:45:47 GMT
This Blue Heron flew in and landed on the West side of the Tennessee River Navigation Channel at Kentucky Lock and Dam, just a short distance from where we were standing under the US Hwy 62 Bridge.
He is between the bridge and the lock.
He didn't seem to mind the presence of several groups of people in close proximity.
I wasn't quick enough to catch him in flight; and, he never did anything exciting like catch a fish, although there were plenty of white-belly-up corpses of huge fish floating by that didn't survive the trip through the lock.
He just stood there, almost motionless, and was still there when we left quite some time later.
He is so close to the same color of the water and everything around him that, if I hadn't saw him land, I never would have known he was there.
There were hundreds, if not thousands, of American Bald Eagles at this place, soaring around above the churning waters and grabbing fish right out of the floodgates; but, they stayed so far off that they are only blurred likenesses even with a 500mm lens.
Photo taken from underneath the 2009 US Hwy 62 bridge, standing beside
the second pillar from the East, on the West side of the lock channel.
Left is North/downstream; right is South/upstream.
Tennessee River Navigation Channel
Kentucky Lock and Dam
Tennessee River Mile 22.4 (from the Ohio River)
Illinois Central Railroad Milepost 26.0 (from Paducah)
Grand Rivers
Livingston County, Kentucky
Land Between the Lakes Roadtrip
Wednesday_21-July-2021
Other than the fact that I was looking in the opposite direction, this photo was taken from the exact same spot and almost the same set of tracks I was standing in as this one:
photoshopelementsandmore.com/post/86279/thread
This is not a calendar masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination; brush and undergrowth concealed most of him from any other angle I tried; he is quite scroungy-looking and not doing anything interesting; this is just photographic proof that he was indeed there.
I have seen worse shots of people in their obituaries and as 8x10s sitting on their casket.
He is between the bridge and the lock.
He didn't seem to mind the presence of several groups of people in close proximity.
I wasn't quick enough to catch him in flight; and, he never did anything exciting like catch a fish, although there were plenty of white-belly-up corpses of huge fish floating by that didn't survive the trip through the lock.
He just stood there, almost motionless, and was still there when we left quite some time later.
He is so close to the same color of the water and everything around him that, if I hadn't saw him land, I never would have known he was there.
There were hundreds, if not thousands, of American Bald Eagles at this place, soaring around above the churning waters and grabbing fish right out of the floodgates; but, they stayed so far off that they are only blurred likenesses even with a 500mm lens.
Photo taken from underneath the 2009 US Hwy 62 bridge, standing beside
the second pillar from the East, on the West side of the lock channel.
Left is North/downstream; right is South/upstream.
Tennessee River Navigation Channel
Kentucky Lock and Dam
Tennessee River Mile 22.4 (from the Ohio River)
Illinois Central Railroad Milepost 26.0 (from Paducah)
Grand Rivers
Livingston County, Kentucky
Land Between the Lakes Roadtrip
Wednesday_21-July-2021
Other than the fact that I was looking in the opposite direction, this photo was taken from the exact same spot and almost the same set of tracks I was standing in as this one:
photoshopelementsandmore.com/post/86279/thread
This is not a calendar masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination; brush and undergrowth concealed most of him from any other angle I tried; he is quite scroungy-looking and not doing anything interesting; this is just photographic proof that he was indeed there.
I have seen worse shots of people in their obituaries and as 8x10s sitting on their casket.
