More in my Heron Series. If you don't have these guys around you, it is hard to appreciate just how lovely a bird they are; yet within this beauty lies a voracious, ruthless killer who possesses the stealth of a leopard, the eyes of a hawk, and the speed of a cheetah. He can go from where his head is now, to a speared fish in the blink of an eye. Even when I know they are wound up for the spring, even with 1/2500 or higher shutter, it is still quite difficult to make that capture.