{"id":20999,"date":"2025-04-05T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/?p=20999"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:23:20","slug":"magnificent-great-blue-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/magnificent-great-blue-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent Great Blue Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A magnificent Great Blue Heron with a payload about to land on a nest at a rookery located in the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. This is the same pair of birds that I posted in my previous posts. I observed them coming and going from the next for the entire duration of our stay near the rookery.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250319-aransas-national-wildlife-refuge-0678-edit-e1743784040303.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21004\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/magnificent-blue-heron\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250319-aransas-national-wildlife-refuge-0678-edit-e1743784040303.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Terry B. Kahler&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-7RM5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Magnificent Great Blue Heron&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1742397231&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Terry B. 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The camera was set on Manual mode with the aperture set at f\/8, shutter speed at 1\/1600th of a second, and the ISO set at 640. I used a tripod for stability. This is a single image processed in Lightroom and completed in Photoshop using Topaz AI to reduce the noise and Nik Color Efex 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view my Birds of Texas collection by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/texas-birds\/\">here<\/a>. 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