First trip to High Island

[MT Stringer]

Man, the skeeers are bad. Thank goodness I brought plenty of spray.
Mike

[GonzoBernelli]

Excellent shots Mike. Are the spoonies pairing up yet or are they still "kvetching" and banging their beaks together?

[dlbdata]

This series of pictures are great.......Were these handheld or tripod......

[mjdmike]

Good job on these Mike.

[Tim T]

Very nice shots Mike. Good work. I like the mating dance shot the best.

[WLPelzmann]

The last two are my favorites. Hope you didn't donate too much blood.

[MT Stringer]

Thanks for the comments. My gear consisted of a Canon Rebel XT w/Sigma 50-500 zoom and a Sigma 1.4TC on a few of the shots. I used a tripod for all shots. My combo is too heavy for me to use without one.

The spoonies are doing both - kvetching and nesting. Still a lot of nest building and mating going on. Only saw one alligator hanging around.

Thank goodness for a weekday. Capt. Ray and I were the only ones there from 7am until about 11:30. Several bird watchers showed up in the parking lot as we were about to leave.
Mike

[GonzoBernelli]

Hey, and a Snowie too! Well done - a great series.

[ttusa]

Love #4 of the first series! I went there on a weekday myself, much better-except for the mosquitos.

[Capt. Ray]

WTG Mike! You got some great shots. It's amazing that we shot from the same locations shooting pretty much the same birds, yet we have different images. Way COOL!