Wow! Your pictures are the best.

Thanks, lt. Here's a snowy egret for ya:

Canon EOS D60 ,Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
1/500s f/6.7 at 400.0mm iso100

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That's what my thistle sock looks like..full of goldies..:o) .. I just love them.... Great pic..KNOK

I have a number of different kinds of feeders in my back yard and they're all loaded with finches. I have over 100 goldfinches and four house finches. Here's another shot:

Canon EOS D60 ,Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
1/250s f/4.0 at 145.0mm iso200

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Wonderful pictures. I love the Snowy Egrets. We have lots of them down here.

I notice that you spell your name Perilloux. My mother's maiden name is Mailloux, French Canadian. I've been doing lots of genealogy, and thanks to cousins, I've been able to trace the family back to France in the 1500's. It just is incredible when I look at all those names, and know that I am a descendant of them.

Genealogy is another of my interests. I've been at it 40 years and have almost 15,000 names in my file at http://www.perilloux.org/family/origin.htm
Unfortunately, because of the French Revolution, WW1 and WW2, I was only able to trace my French ancestry back only to the early 1700s.
Here is a photo from sometime before December 1877, taken with an unknown camera type. Looks like something out of the wild west, but it was in Louisiana.

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