Snowy Egret, St Augustine Alligator Farm wild bird rookery, St Augustine FL

Ah the Gator Farm in Spring. Bull alligators roaring loud enough to shake the boardwalk. Birds in breeding plumage putting on displays. Storks and Egrets gathering nesting materials and flying them in to prospective mates. Birds feeding chicks in the nest. Raging hormones in aid of a new crop of life! This Snowy Egret in fully in the swing of things…doing his best to attract a viable mate. As a photographer, there is nothing quite like being immersed in the rookery as you are at the St Augustine Alligator Farm. This intimate portrait could not have been taken many other places.

Nikon P900 at just under 1000mm equivalent field of view. 1/2000th @ f5.6 @ ISO 100. -.7EV exposure compensation. Processed in Lightroom.