When the subject of the Venice rookery came up I got excited. I had been there once before and was tickled to see Great Blue Herons nesting and raising chicks. I know I claim to love the Woodstork chicks best, they being so ugly they’re cute, but there is something about those GBH babies that tickles me. Of all of the chicks I’ve seen I think they most look like miniature versions of their parents. So off we went on our adventure, and I wasn’t disappointed.
Upon arrival I was a little disappointed to see far fewer nests than I had expected. I was a little worried until I spotted a nicely placed nest with good camera angles to use. I think I took almost 100 pictures before I kicked myself in the butt and decided to go back to the car for the bigger lens and tripod. 
I was even there when Dad brought home the bacon, so to speak. I don’t know how much of it was fed to the ‘kids’, but a minute later it was down the hatch.
The 18-400 lens is no slouch, but I did take quite a few photos with the 150-600…
As you can see from the feature photo there were more than Great Blue Herons at the rookery, but we’ll get to them…
A Snowbird's Life Through the Lens 