Bird Observation

I have been observing birds essentially my whole life. It was not until I participated in my youngest son's 6th grade project on birds that I began to really appreciate their beauty and antics. His assignment was to photograph or draw 20-25 species of birds. He chose to photograph as I had a Nikon camera and a medium long lens and he hated drawing. After we reached 60 something birds my son decided enough was enough. Nine years later I am still going strong. I have now observed over 400 species of birds. That may sound like a large number but considering there are over 9000 species worldwide, its just a drop in the bucket so to speak. I will be sharing some of my photographs of birds and perhaps of places I have visited while in search of birds. My hope is that you will enjoy viewing the birds as much as I did photographing them although nothing beats getting out in the field and seeing them for yourself. The photograph with this post is of Dancing Great Egrets at the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida.