Today, along with my camera club, I visited Kiwanis Lake around 8:00am. At this time of the year, Egrets local to this area are making their nests and getting ready to get greasy and make babies. The males display a beautiful bright green color around their eyes which turns yellow after they’re done having themselves a time with females.
I brought two pieces of gear with me today- My Nikon D850 and my Nikon Nikkor 200-500mm lens. I left my teleconverter at home as I didn’t think I needed it and my thought process was mostly right. It was tough enough to track at 500mm let alone adding the extra length and calculated the extra math as far as S, A and ISO went. I’m happy with the decision I made as it was simple and allowed me to focus solely on photographing the birds nesting as well as them in flight.
York, PA is not my favorite city/town in the state I live in but it does have a great central farmer’s market, this park and the band Live is from here as well so that’s kind of cool. Otherwise, please enjoy the egrets, duck and cardinal that allowed me to photograph them today… And please visit the central market and get some good produce, meats and hoagies. If you’re in the area and have a chance to visit this park, please do so. It’s a relaxing and flat walk around a lake with vibrant animal life.
-Mike