{"id":3618,"date":"2021-06-24T19:54:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T19:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2021-06-24T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T19:56:58","slug":"sushi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/sushi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I went to the Britannia Conservation Area on Wednesday June 23, and spent a pleasan summer afternoon there. I carried my trusty Pentax K-3II with Sigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM super-zoom lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent two hours with this efficient Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) in my 2 hours he\/she caught 8 Brown Bullhead catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus). The heron could careless about spectators, as long as there were catfish in the shallow water of Mud Lake (Britannia Conservation Area) it was happy. I can’t say the catfish were happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heron reflecting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The strike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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barboutte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Sushi & salad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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More bullhead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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yum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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snack number two<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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nailed it…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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splish splash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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nictitating membrane<\/strong> still closed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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one more flip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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yet another unlucky brown bullhead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The heron finally had it’s fill and flew of with a belly full of brown bullheads.


Darrell Larose<\/strong>
Ottawa, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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