{"id":18847,"date":"2024-03-27T06:39:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T10:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=18847"},"modified":"2024-03-27T06:39:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T10:39:57","slug":"florida-deadly-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=18847","title":{"rendered":"Florida! Deadly dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Snowy Egret: Blackpoint Wildlife Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida, USA, January 2024 \u2014 After my workshop day in Cocoa Beach at the Space Coast Birding and Nature Festival, I arrived early at Blackpoint Wildlife Drive, to find the Egrets and Spoonbills feeding avidly in the ponds right behind the entrance sign. Parking is awkward there, but in just 20 minutes I got more photos of Egrets dancing on the water than I had ever hoped to get. Part of it was the OM System OM-1 with its bird detecting, eye-tracking auto focus, and part of it was that I have never seen so much concentrated action in such a small pool. This sequence shows how effective the whole dance-on-the-water thing is for Snowy Egrets\u2026though I still suspect they have more misses than hits. It is certainly fascinating to watch, and I have enough photos from this one stop to share for the next week or more. \ud83d\ude42 OM System OM-1 with M. Zuiko 100-400IS zoom at 300mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds-in-flight and action modifications. -1.0EV, 1\/1600th second. Processed in Photomator. <\/p>\n

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