One of the things that I try to acheive in my photographs is a full-on in your face image.  I try and put the viewer closer to the subject than you would normally be able to get.  Today I had three opportunities to get that close, all without any distress to the subject of course.  The Cattle Egret (above) was part of a small group of five that I photographed from the car window.  I draped a piece of cam net over the door to conceal myself and then waited for the Egrets to come very close, they continued to feed right next to me.  I was hoping to get some shots with prey but it just didn't happen unfortunately, but the head shot portraits are really special and will make a great addition to my galeries. They were feeding on large spiders oddly enough.

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As I photographed the Cattle Egrets, a White Ibis came along by  the edge of the road feeding in a totally different way, probing in to the earth with it's long pointed beak.  Like the egrets, it was oblivious to my presence and it was mostly too close to get it entirely in the frame of the camera.  The photographers, not cropped at all, get right in there to the centre of the feeding action.

These photos were taken at Brian Picollo Park, we had gone there to have a look for Burrowing Owls,  this is a well known nesting area for them.  We are a bit early in the year for breeding though, and there was no sign of them today. In the late afternoon we returned to the beach and East.  It was a lovely surprise when on the beach I was confronted with some waders!  To be specific some tiny Sanderling and more interestingly, a small flock of Grey Plover, known in the US as Black-bellied Plover. With the sun now very low in the sky, the light was just perfection!