Spent two evenings at the Baylands recently. The snowy egrets and great egrets are becoming quite active, and the duck pond is always entertaining. By the way, I highly recommend bringing a bottle of wine while photographing egrets in the evening – makes an already enjoyable experience even more fabulous!!! As always, comments and critiques are most sincerely welcome.
-- Susan
Very nice series Susan. My favorites are #2, 3, 6, 7 and 9. Looks like you were handling your gear quite steadily after the bottle of wine. May be I should take a bottle of whisky in my next outing.
Jude
Absolutely gorgeous pictures and most probably among the most beautiful shots of these birds I have seen in a while.
The Egretta tula or snowy egrets are well known by their black legs and yellow feet. I am sure you know they only show feathers like those when they are in breeding season. Here in South Florida they are more plentiful during the winter months. I tried many times to photograph them at the Everglades National Park, always unsuccessfully. During a visit with the family to the Miami Zoo there was a beautiful one posing for me at the very entrance. The picture came out great and the enlargement printed with a professional HP printer was awesome. Life is full of surprises I guess!
Congratulations for your excellent shots.
William Rodriguez
Miami, Florida.
Ummm.........Wow Susan Nice touch on these. Well disciplined exposures and backlight control. First, thank goodness for dutiful husbands building nest OK, now a few favorites, #3 and #11 just beautiful. Wonderful presentation, and great attention to details on your part.
Looks like you were handling your gear quite steadily after the bottle of wine. 
May be I should take a bottle of whisky in my next outing. 