Begging for food (3 pics)...

JoanMN

17 years ago

Please, Mom, we're starving!

Mom, do you hear us?

Ahh, so good!

From Alligator Farm in St. Augustine, FL.

Canon Digital Rebel XTi, Canon 70-200mm F4.0 IS lens.

JoanMN/FL

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alisande
17 years ago
Oh, my! Aren't they beautiful!!
catlady15
17 years ago
Joan,Joan Joan you are one more amazing person to share all these beautiful pics.Do you keep books on your pics.You ought too.They are really great.
Someone gave my FIL a digital camera for Christmas and he had us to put it together and show him how to use it.Than he asked how to get his pics out.We told him we take the card and print them out.Bless his heart for 82 years old you can see why he asked.He said he just stick to flim cameras.We told him to call us and we show him any time how to take pics with it.He was so amazed how you can look back at the pics you took.You know you can hardly find flim cameras any more.They look at you like are you kidding when you ask if they sell them.
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Darling!! Great shots! Isn't that place great? People can stand a few yards away from the nesting birds, snapping away even with inexpensive cameras for great close ups!
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Linda Wayman
17 years ago
Great pics Joan. Both mom and babies are adorable.

Linda
lindyluwho
17 years ago
Beautiful!!

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lydia1959
17 years ago
Great shots!! These babies are kept far away from the gators, right? :-)
glenda_al
17 years ago
Cute little beggars!
JoanMN
Original Author
17 years ago
Lydia, the birds are free. They nest there because they and their eggs and young ones are safe from raccoons and possums, which rob the nests. The gators wait underneath (the birds nest above the water) for a baby to fall out. Sounds awful, but I guess that's nature.
JoanMN/FL
jannie
17 years ago
Those are wonderful pictures!
kayjones
17 years ago
Joan, your pictures are amazing! You might consider 'watermarking' them so no one can steal them from you. Who knows, someone might buy prints from you!!!

Does anyone have a free software program for watermarking digital photos?
JoanMN
Original Author
17 years ago
Kay, my camera inserts my name in the EXIF info that's embedded in digital pictures. And I do have photos on a couple of sites that sell prints, Big Stock Photo and Fotalia. I have sold some prints.
And thanks, everyone!
JoanMN/FL

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