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Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge

We visited Ding Darling NWR on Sanibel Island over a couple of days while we were in the Fort Myers area. This is a beautiful refuge and can provide some good photo opportunities if you are there when the tide is coming in. We managed to get some reasonably decent images of roseatte spoonbills (thanks to the 500mm lens with teleconverter), and got lucky with a group of snowy egrets working over a school of small fish at close range. We try more for action shots in this group of images, rather that just shoot birds sitting on a stick.
Roseatte Spoonbills Fishing Roseate Spoonbill Catching Shellfish Roseatte Spoonbill Gulping Small Fish Green Heron with Fish Snowy Egret Stalking Snowy Egret Catching Fish 01
Snowy Egret Catching Fish 02 Wood Stork with Fish Wood Stork Eating Fish Brown Pelican Takeoff