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Great Blue Herons are commonly posted in this forum so here's my contribution.

October 19, 2009. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

 

 

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Sony DSLR A200 camera. Sigma 400mm APO prime lens, Sony 55-200mm lens, Sony 18-70mm lens, Kenko 1.5X teleconverter.

 

And the prize is a slimy fish supper!

Actually, I watched this heron for about 10 minutes and it was very successful. Didn't go to bed hungry last night.

 

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Sony DSLR A200 camera. Sigma 400mm APO prime lens, Sony 55-200mm lens, Sony 18-70mm lens, Kenko 1.5X teleconverter.

Great shots!  They are funny to watch, aren't they!  There is one that literally walks around the wildlife sanctuary I go to; he'll let you get pretty close before he flys away; he just walks around the numerous ponds looking for goodies.

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Normally, you associate kingfishers, terns, ospreys, herons and the like with kersplooshing, but wood ducks ain't too shabby when it comes to kersplooshing either.

His kersplooshing even triggered a mini tsunami (to his right)!

 

 

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Sony DSLR A200 camera. Sigma 400mm APO prime lens, Sony 55-200mm lens, Sony 18-70mm lens, Kenko 1.5X teleconverter.

I liked the pattern that this Eared Grebe made when diving for lunch.

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Said the Flamingo to the photographer: "I can KERSPLOOSH with the best of them, and still look elegant doing it!"

Nice clean kersploosh matt and nice noisy kersploosh susanwinfl

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Sony DSLR A200 camera. Sigma 400mm APO prime lens, Sony 55-200mm lens, Sony 18-70mm lens, Kenko 1.5X teleconverter.

Here's a mallard doing his part....

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Life List: 139
Latest: Cedar Waxwing!!!!!!!

 

That's a wicked kersplash curlybird!

Of course, kersplashes, kersplooshes, kerplunks and kerplops are all the same thing when it boils right down to it.

 

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Sony DSLR A200 camera. Sigma 400mm APO prime lens, Sony 55-200mm lens, Sony 18-70mm lens, Kenko 1.5X teleconverter.

I forgot I had this one....here's a red-winged blackbird enjoying a summer swim (taken a couple mos ago)

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Life List: 139
Latest: Cedar Waxwing!!!!!!!

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"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
Immanuel Kant

Loons can kersploosh too!  ....kinda....

 

I have posted this pic before, but I guess it qualifies as a kersploosh.

These Trumpeter Swans are part of a successful re-introduction program of a once abundant native bird. In spring they fly north to raise their cygnets and then return to ice-free areas around Toronto for winter. They do not like being tagged, but the info those tags provide is saving their bacon!

 

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Sony DSLR A200 camera. Sigma 400mm APO prime lens, Sony 55-200mm lens, Sony 18-70mm lens, Kenko 1.5X teleconverter.

A group of Sanderlings trying to avoid the onrushing kersploosh

Great shot, Lyceel!!!

Here's a gull vs. grebe kersploosh over a fish!  (I already posted this under "fight" but it fits this category, too!)

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Life List: 139
Latest: Cedar Waxwing!!!!!!!