Barberton Reservoir 2019.06.03
Channel: Justin Irwin
Date: 2019-08-03

Here is some video I shot a couple months ago and now just got around to working on. This was at the Barberton Reservoir in Norton, Ohio. The weather was nice and there was a decent flow over the dam.

The real story of the day was the great blue heron. When I arrived I was greeted by the guttural cries of a pair of the birds. One, and to some degree a couple ducks, seemed unwilling to move from their perch on the dam and not very concerned by my drone.

Normally I don't get too close to wildlife, especially large birds, for safety reasons but this one kept hanging around. The angle is deceptive, I'm not as close as it appears, but this was probably the closest I've been to any wild bird. In the end, I think it was my attention from the bank and my movements that caused it to leave and join it's mate on the opposite bank for some better fishing.

Music
"Waypoint I" by TeknoAXE
Licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7IF7dHvhvA
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