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This is what I came to the lake to hopefully capture. One of the chicks (quite large now) would from time to time jump up and spread it's wings and feeling what is like to be air born, even if for only a few seconds.
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This is what I came to the lake to hopefully capture. One of the chicks (quite large now) would from time to time jump up and spread it's wings and feeling what is like to be air born, even if for only a few seconds.

DSC_9939 time to spread your wings

summerStaten IslandClove LakesGreat blue heronbirdsnatureherons

  • DSC_8422 Puerto Rican Day Parade
  • DSC_7598 Puerto Rican Day Parade
  • DSC_7616 Puerto Rican Day Parade
  • Nice car...
  • DSC_9189 Heron's nest
  • Dinner!! Yeah!!
  • DSC_9192 coming in for a landing
  • Here's papa, or mamma, fresh back from another hunting trip for the kiddies. The four chicks have grown quite big and no doubt, so has their appetite.
  • Sadly one of the chicks didn't survive
  • DSC_9170 feeding time
  • DSC_9336 Great white
  • Training a fresh batch of recruits.
  • Heading back for the bus home after a great day of shooting here at Clove Lakes, I came across this track coach preparing his new troops on how to run in a relay race.
  • DSC_9351 training the troops
  • DSC_9358 training the troops
  • DSC_6062 scenes from the Japenese gardens
  • DSC_6407 Orchid display
  • DSC_0083 sibling rivary
  • This is what I came to the lake to hopefully capture. One of the chicks (quite large now) would from time to time jump up and spread it's wings and feeling what is like to be air born, even if for only a few seconds.
  • When it would get windy you could see one of the big young ones leave the nest entirely and climb up this branch several feet above the nest near the top of the tree, and flap it's wings mightily into the direction of the wind, no doubt teaching itself the skills it will need to learn in order to fly.
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