Crops & Clips: Birding in the fog

Some mornings the sun rises into a clear sky, but when we walk out on the wetlands we may encounter fog. This produces some stunning effects for landscape photography.

Fog shrouds the inhabited side of the canal, opposite our local wetlands:

 

The sun tries to break through:



Last week, just after sunrise, a "fogbow" formed over the wetlands:



Shooting in between the high blades of grass and through the fog produced a natural vignette and a two-dimensional rendering of these Black-necked Stilts:

 

Two Mottled Ducks enter the lake...



...and swim under a blanket:



This Garden Spider's web is weighted down by dewdrops:





Photographing wildlife can be a challenge. This photo of a Little Blue Heron is a poor exposure but I liked the composition:



Fog muffles the background as this egret lands on a small tree:



This doe probably couldn't see us, and we could barely see her:



After a foggy start, the sun did come out. Now the camera does its work without any tweaking. Still air provides nice reflections of a Great Egret...



...as it catches a tiny minnow:



A Red-shouldered Hawk watches from the side of the path:



A male Northern Flicker stands out against a blue sky:



Close by is a female flicker (no mustache):



The lack of butterflies is concerning. Does this have anything to do with the massive anti-mosquito campaign which followed Hurricane Irma? This is a Gulf Fritillary:



Hurricane-felled trees along the canal have prevented us from following it along on the "wild side," to the right. A homeowner association (HOA-approved) fence identifies the civilized side:





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