Great Egret from Sto. Tomas, La Union

[Romy Ocon]

The slightly overcast skies provided very soft lighting in this quickie sortie to the vast fishponds of Sto. Tomas (La Union), my first birding in 2015. With the gape unmistakeably extending way past behind the eye, it seems to me this bird is easy to ID.

Great Egret (Egretta alba)
Shooting info - Sto. Tomas, La Union, January 9, 2015, Canon 1D MIV + EF 500 f4 L IS, 500 mm, f/4, ISO 1250, 1/2000 sec, 475B/3421 support.

And a BIF coming at me. The DOF at f/4, 500 mm and near-MFD was paper thin, but the 1D MIV was able to keep up with the head area of the subject.

Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybridus)
Shooting info - Sto. Tomas, La Union, January 9, 2015, Canon 1D Mark IV + EF 500 f4 IS, 500 mm, f/4, ISO 640, 1/2000 sec, manual exposure in available light, 475B/516 support, near full frame.

[Agerico M. De Villa]

Superb color, the egret photograph. Many occasions you bring our targets a step higher, very good! Congratulations, Romy!

[Tateo Osawa]

Wow, super shot, Romy. very a nice color of Grate Egret. Romys photo are always make me feel nice.
A Whiskerd Tern, all most full frame, I think very first to come to near. a great shot, Romy.

[Romy Ocon]

Thanks, Prop and Tateo-san!

[Tonji Ramos]

Fantastic Romy Egret. And wow, thats a giant Whiskered! Nice to see your taking lots of pics again.