Least Bittern

Weather has been lousy here for the last few days so no chance to get out shooting.

I thought i would go back through my shots i took in Florida back in March this year(2009).

This shot of a Least Bittern is one of my favourite. It was taken at a place called Viera Wetlands in Melbourne Florida. Its full name is Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands at Viera. Its a great place for wildlife and is on the Great Florida Birding Trail Guide routes. You can take your car around and drive very slowly watching out for birds and other wildlife.

This shot was taken out of the car window with my Nikon D300 Camera and Nikkor 500mm F4G AF-S VR lens with 1.7x teleconverter. Least Bitterns are elusive little birds usually hunting between the reeds so im pleased that I was able to capture this little guy out in the open.

thats it for now, catch you all soon

Colin.