A Few Birds From Gatorland...

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Originally Posted by Rebel

Nice shots Joe, I especially like the colours in the first one!

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Hey Matt, thank you for viewing and commenting. Very much appreciated.

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Originally Posted by Barbara Ponder

Beautiful set!

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Thank you Barbara, very much appreciated.

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Originally Posted by Wavelength

An awesome collection; really done well :)

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Thank you Nandakumar, I appreciate your viewing and commenting.

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Originally Posted by ied

Absolutely stunning! All equally beautiful.

Irene

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Hello Irene, thank you for viewing and commenting.

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Originally Posted by DonnaK

Outstanding shots! I loved all of them. Your cormorant portrait is exceptional.

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Hello Donna, your viewing and commenting is very much appreciated. Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Dave Humphries

Great series as usual Joe,

Thanks for showing us how it should be done.

I too would pick the Cormorant as my favourite, although there's much to be said for the Great Egret series too - I see you got the chicks at their 'cute' stage :)

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Hi Dave, thank you for viewing and commenting. The chicks were beautiful Dave, amazing how much they grow in a week.

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Originally Posted by mammarazzi

Beautiful images of some stunning creatures - oh those chicks are adorable x

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Thank you Joanne, I appreciate you viewing and commenting.

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Originally Posted by zen

Great shots, all, but the detail in the cormorant is outstanding. What a shot!

Thank you for sharing.

Zen:)

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Zen, thank you for viewing and commenting.

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Originally Posted by Stagecoach

Wonderful selection as always Joe. Many thanks for also showing your shooting info which I find a great help in my endeavours to tackle this area of photography.

Amazing to see the eye colours in all of these so well.

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Hello Grahame, thank you for viewing and commenting. I appreciated it very much.

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Originally Posted by rpcrowe

Beautiful images, all of them! Picking a favorite would be hard but, it would probably be the Tri-colored Heron!

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Thank you Richard, very much appreciated.

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Originally Posted by NorthernFocus

Nice set, Joe. That's one place I've always wanted to go but years come and go with no opportunity.

I'm not prone to flattery so please take it sincerely as intended. I think that is the best cormorant shot that I've ever seen. Many people capture the eye but I don't think I've ever seen such feather detail.

The great egret in the tree is a classic and well executed. Nice job overall.

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Thanks Dan, very much appreciated. I think the feather detail is from finally dialing in my camera/lens using the auto-focus fine tuning. I found a method on the internet called Dot Tune that worked excellent. I had sent my camera to Nikon for repair, they replaced the broken part, cleaned and re-aligned the mirror. When I tried the repaired camera and lens the focus was way off. Even though I hated to, I had to use the auto-focus fine tuning.

Beautiful shots as always :)