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Posted by quakerville on January 22, 2012

Cattle Train Due Any Minute

Posted by quakerville on January 26, 2012

Cattle Train Due Any Minute, originally uploaded by QuakerVille.

Via Flickr:
Somehow these birds knew that the cattle train was due and that it would be full of cows. Amazing birds!

This is a photo of a group of Cattle Egrets captured while I was exploring a road along the Miami Canal which cuts through the Sugar Cane fields in Palm Beach County, Florida. This area is the main sugar cane producer in the USA and has some wonderful wildlife habitat. My wife Jo and I love to spend time exploring the area from the Everglades north to Lake Okeechobee, where we see all kinds of birds, Raccoon, and Alligators. One trip we counted over 100 ‘Gators sunning themselves along the banks of the water.

Check out my blog at “Jon-Mark’s Blog“

Wildlife Videos, QuakerVille Style

Posted by quakerville on January 23, 2012

I love shooting pictures in the Everglades, if you haven’t already figured that out. Over the years I’ve been able to shoot thousands of pictures and capture hundreds of hours of video in many different formats. Before going total HD 16×9 this past summer I created several short videos about wildlife and am recently uploaded them to YouTube for sharing. These short videos are trying to share some of the pictures I’m able to capture in sequences most people have never seen before. My style of capturing wildlife is to shoot extended burst sequences to attempt to capture a greater scope of the subject’s behavior and life. Single shots are nice but I normally shoot 100-400 stills in the same time photographers shoot a dozen. I’ve shot that way ever since I purchased my first auto winder for my Olympus camera in the 70′s. Depending on the setting and lightening I’ll even shoot long sequences with flash. I have some of those sequences being ready for later blogs.

South Florida Birds

If you have a couple of minutes check out South Florida Birds (above) and Great Blues Rookery (below). Great Blues is a series of very high quality still shots with my SLR combined with a short video clip. It’s similar to stop motion animation, with real live wildlife. These are about the last two productions I did in 4 x 3 SD, Everything now is 16 x 9 HD (1080p).

I hope you enjoy these short views into the life of Great Blue Herons (Tri-Colored too). We expect to start seeing chicks like this in the Rookeries around South Florida soon. Look for more media on them in the near future.