When I visited the Venice Rookery (Florida) this past February, there was tons of activity by the Great Egrets. Besides the one pair of egrets that were being incubated (in last Friday’s post), all of the other egrets were busy attracting mates or collecting sticks and building their nests. Here are a few of my favorite images of these beautiful birds as they worked on their nests:
This guy flew from the rookery to the bank near where I was photographing from:
And then took it back to his nest:
This guy was bringing in a “special” piece of furniture … one decorated with Spanish Moss:
In upcoming posts, I will be sharing more images from my February trip to Florida.
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 7D Mark II body
- Canon 500mm, f/4 IS lens
- Bogen 3021 tripod with Wemberly gimbal tripod
- ISO 400 and ISO 250
- Aperture f/4 (all images)
- Shutter 1/320 sec. to 1/8000 sec.