Early morning Purple Martins in flight, Heron fishing, Wood Storks in flight.

I spent a while trying to photograph these beautiful Purple Martins in flight and it is always a challenge. No doubt new cameras have much faster and better auto focus systems but practice is really necessary to sharpen the hand eye coordination to find the birds in the middle of the viewfinder. Looking forward to more practice and hopefully a new camera soon.
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Thanks for watching, Cheers!!!
Full Gallery: rodrigoshariff.smugmug.com/Bi...
Birds:
00:00 Intro
00:13 Purple Martin / Golondrina Purpúrea (Progne subis)
01:03 Tricolored Heron / Garza Tricolor (Egretta tricolor)
01:33 Wood Stork / Cigüeña Cabeza-de-hueso (Mycteria americana)
02:13 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck / Suirirí Piquirrojo (Dendrocygna autumnalis)
02:23 Great Egret / Garza Real (Ardea alba)
02:33 Outro
Gear:
Canon EOS R6 samples
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM

[@mateomendoza8937]

Tricolored heron pics r special also beautiful whistling ducks for the cherry on top!

[@rodrigoshariff]

Thank you

[@ahrweilernaturi]

Photos are very beautiful

[@rodrigoshariff]

Thank you very much!!!

[@oscarmendoza9215]

fotos increiblemente bellas

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Gracias

[@FocusedNatureAndWildlifeByAJ]

Wow, amazing photos. Martin photos are very beautiful 😍❤️

[@rodrigoshariff]

Thank you very much.

[@carlamontano9594]

El black belly patito esta bellooooo❤

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Mercy

[@gijsvermeulen5248]

Hello, the pictures are all great and of very good quality so i couldn't pick one out.Yes there are probably better body's with faster autofocus but the hand and creativity of the photographer
is in my opinion more important.Greetings Gijs

[@rodrigoshariff]

Thank you very much. Completely agreed. Cheers!