Wading Birds

[Roolooth99]

Really enjoyed your slide show, so nicely put together with nice music.

[sragil]

Takes me back to my childhood, growing up along a river.

[loveyoutodeathbut]

That made a very hard day much easier to bear, thank you dafttool!

[brandonsk8terperson]

those birds are fuckin awesome. wading birds rock my socks.

[68160]

Even though my favorite "bird" of all is conspicuously missing yet again, it's yet another winner. ;-)

[dafttool]

Thanks. You've been conspicuously missing yourself. :(

[blastedwpg]

That was great. That's the main reason I like to get back to my reserve in Ontario is to experience nature. Anywho, great vid, 5 stars.:)

[dafttool]

Yeah, they filmed lots of stuff there, including Tarzan, James Bond & Creature from the Black Lagoon.

[LHWM]

It must take a great deal of patience to get those shots. Good job!

[dafttool]

Instead of patience, think of it as avoiding actual work. :) Thanks for the comment.

[Deswaldso]

Wow, they are cute :)

[dafttool]

Thanks, Aljoša. ^_^

[Deswaldso]

^_^

[sragil]

Excellent photos. Keep up the good work! You should turn "professional".

[cindiloohoo]

Great stuff, all your videos! Hope you are planning to do lots more.

What was the name of the park you worked at in Florida? In the late seventies & early eighties my husband worked at Monkey Jungle. He was heartbroken when Hurricane Andrew destroyed it, although I see it's making a comeback.

[dafttool]

It was also in Florida, the Silver Springs Nature Attraction. It's had its own figurative hurricanes to hit it, changing ownership several times since I was there. They got rid of much of the exotic animals I used to work with, but the natural beauty of the park still remains.

[Sikosm]

cool!! uv put up another video :-)

wow - that bird at 00:55 is soo red!! :-) how does it camouflage lol?

i think it is really cool how u took the photos yourself and didn't just get them from google :-) you actually got in there and took those photos! woooah that is cool!!

[dafttool]

Thanks, Saz. And thanks for favoriting it. ^_^ Yep, they're all my photos. Some of the animals at the park I used to work at could only be fed by boat, so everyday I was out on the river as the sun came up and set, allowing me to take pictures of whatever I came across.

[Sikosm]

that must have been such a cool experience! :-) lucky you :-)

[ShortbusMooner]

What a super-cool job you have! I'd love to spend my days looking at nature. *sigh*

[dafttool]

Alas, a super-cool job I used to have many years ago before I went off to college. I would keep my camera by my side just in case I would see anything neat, which as it turned out was quite often.

[LetsGetGroovy]

You have an eye for photography! If your teacher gig doesn't work out I'm positive with your knowledge and skill, you can get a job for National Geographic.

Lookin' forward to your next vid!

[LetsGetGroovy]

You have an eye for photography! If your teacher gig doesn't work out I'm positive with your knowledge and skill, you can get a job for National Geographic.

Lookin' forward to your next vid!

[dafttool]

Thanks for the kind words. ^_^

[randyrascal]

Cool photos you've got there. Did you really take them all?

[dafttool]

Certainly did. Glad you like them. ^_^

[randyrascal]

They're great. I just checked out your other videos. You're very talanted. You could easily work for National Geographic or someother magazine like that.

[dafttool]

Thanks.

[gruvydude]

Some beautiful photography, Chris.

[dafttool]

Thanks. I appreciate the kind words.

[gruvydude]

I like the one with the mother crane and its chick the best. Very sweet.

[dafttool]

Yeah, that's a favorite of mine as well. It wasn't easy to get, but I got lucky on the timing since the chick had only just hatched and the mother was preoccupied. The people I worked for had hired a professional photographer to get the same shot the year before, but they never got it.

[gruvydude]

Cool. So that one is from the animal park you used to work at?

[dafttool]

Yeah. They had the run of the place though. They're Sarus Cranes (from India).

[gruvydude]

I also like that one at the very beginning, with the nest. Did you stage that with the flower? Do you know what type of bird's nest it was?

[dafttool]

No, I didn't stage it. That's the way I found it. It was overhanging the water. It's the nest of a Gallinule. That ugly looking chick in the next photo is from that same nest a few days later. If you look closely at its wing, you can see a vestigial finger with a claw.

[gruvydude]

Oh yeah, I see it. That's wild.

[woosteria]

Love those beautiful birds! Thanks for the slide show.

[dafttool]

Thank you. ^_^