It's Nesting Time at the Rookery

Here in Florida, it's prime nesting season for many of the migratory birds and locals. Here's more pics from my trip to the local Rookery, and a video compilation.

This group of pics will focus on the Great Egrets. Very plentiful here, and lovely to watch.

And I decided to test out the video capabilities of my camera for the first time. This was one of the main reasons I chose the camera that I did, yet the first time I've tried using video with it for wildlife. I am super stoked at how the video came out. These video shots were all taken with a 200-600mm lens. If you're familiar with camera usage, you'll know how hard it is to hold a camera and lens like that steady. For these shots, I was using a monopod to help hold. Between that and the camera stabilization, they came out pretty well. I can't wait to try again, but will likely try tripod next time for even more stable shots.

Here's the link to video. It includes several other species as well that I snagged with quick videos.

All shots original work copyright by the author of this post.
Shot with Sony A7 R4, with Sony 200-600mm lens on monopod.