A swaying, shimmying, stalking American Bittern. Tara Tanaka

"I had so many comments on the way that the Great Egret moved its head and neck in the Great Backyard Bird Count video vimeo.com/39248315, that I decided to reach back into some five-year old American Bittern footage that I’d been meaning to edit to show the master of bird swaying. I regularly change the speed in my videos depending on what effect I’m trying to achieve, but I did want to mention that the flight scene at the very end was slowed down by 50 percent. The Little Blue Heron actually flies at the speed depicted in this clip, but the American Bittern has a very fast wing beat, twice as fast as in this video." ~ Tara Tanaka