But, I’ve still been shooting.  Here are a few pictures from the last few months.

A fish kill a few months ago brought out the vultures to clean up.  You usually see them up high.  This time it was easy to catch them in flight.

A trip to Ollies Pond was really fruitful.  I caught a juvenile Little Blue Heron in the rushes for a closeup.  You can tell it from the Snowy Egrets by it’s green/yellow legs.

Great Blue Herons were nesting on the other side of the pond.  The 200-500mm reached across for a shot I could crop to a useful size.

And one of them was flying back and forth looking for nesting materials.

Ollies suffered greatly from drought and it is in the process of recovery.  A lot of marsh plants grew on the rich bottom when it was exposed.  A bit of rain refilled the pond and they died off.  This is leaving a lot of rotting material to enrich the bottom again but it’s a bit ugly now.  Still good for the Moorhens who will help clean it up.

A pair of male Grackles were making blustering mating displays for the local ladies.

And a warbler was perched on a dead stalk looking quite dapper.

I also found an Eagle’s nest near a local church.  I call this one ruffled feathers.

‘Til we meet again.