Well, since the thread woke back up, here's some more. Some of you that know me on Facebook have already seen these.
Same little shore spot as earlier:
Another alligator nap. No, I did not walk up to him, this is what you can do with 300mm.
Coots enjoying a dig in some nasty-looking water.
Green Heron. This guy came outa nowhere across my field of view, I did good to get him. Only two frames, and one was out of focus.
Snowy egret, looking for lunch. Slightly smaller than the Great Egret seen earlier, and has a black beak.
I never thought of myself as a birding-type dude, but running around out there with a 300mm lens and seeing what you can see.... well then you have to find out what they are! This is a Red Breasted Merganser. (Now you know.)
Red-bellied woodpecker. Odd, because there's no red on its belly. I don't make the rules, I just report them.
Black Skimmers.
This shot shows the weird beak the skimmers use for slicing the water and scraping up some fish:
Little Blue Heron. Same shape as the Great Blue, but smaller, and actually blue, even the beak. I don't have a lot of shots of these because they're much more skittish than the great blues. Greats let you walk up within 8 or 10 feet, and littles are long gone by then.
An example of how the Great Blue Heron hangs loose for you.
Brown Thrasher
If you've ever driven in the south during May and September, you know what love bugs are. Well, they're just coming out of the woods right now, and they hadn't quite paired off yet. I've never actually seen one flying unattached, as it were.
I shot a bunch of these, but this is the only one that was even close to useable. These little guys are less than a quarter of an inch.
Obligatory dragonfly shot:
Lizard in a tree.
Caught him in mid color-change!
Same lizard:
Northern Parula. I guarantee I had no idea what this was when I saw it. It flew across the trail in front of me and my mind was alert enough to think, "WTF was that??!!!?" Found him in the tree, but had no shot, and then caught three quick frames as he flitted across, then he flew away. Only had about 10 seconds to get him.
