Photographs and commentary by Dick Snoke
We drove to the Twin Cities for my sister’s birthday, and while there I took a couple mornings to watch and photograph the egrets, geese and ducks at the Wood Lake Nature Center. In addition to the very nice trail, there is a boardwalk across the middle of the swamp, and that affords a great place to observe and photograph (shoot) the birds. I used my 100-400 mm lens, but the egret heads a so small, the autofocus system had a hard time locking focus on them. And I was working without a tripod or other support. So I took many images, but not all of them worked out. And the light was changing rapidly as I shot. I started before the sun broke over the trees and stayed after it got up over the trees.