Thursday, March 19, 2015

NEST BUILDING @LINDO LAKE – Mar 19


Went off to Lindo Lake this morning for some photography. The skies were overcast to start with but soon the sun came out and made for a lovely morning. The Eastern lake is dried up, but there were plenty of white pelicans cruising in the larger lake. They were fun to watch as they traveled in a group around the lake.


JUST CRUISIN'




My eye was attracted though to the great egrets who were flying around gathering nesting material. After getting into a good position for the light I had a good time capturing some of their antics. 

Great Egrets -
 










In the same trees were some night herons who were doing the same thing, nest building. They were a little more elusive but perseverance paid off.




 After a couple of hours I called it a morning and returned home to enjoy a cup of coffee and proceed to edit pictures. I am getting better at deleting images – – I am down to 47 from this morning’s shoot after taking 406! Now you know why you like most of my pictures; you only see the better ones.

Enjoy.

4 comments:

  1. You're suppose to delete them? ;) These best out of 406 are superb! I feel lucky to get 10 good ones out of every 100 taken. If I catch a clear shot of a bird in flight it was just dumb luck.

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  2. Some of it is luck, but you are luckier with motor drive, and holding the camera on the bird. Also one has to learn to anticipate activity. :-)

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  3. I also delete mosyt of my photos to get a good one. These are beautiful photo,well done. Have a good weekend Diane

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  4. Hello Nancy! Nice seeing you today at the year end judging. Love your blog! Happy shooting and hope to see you in the field soon. Sandy Zelasko

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