
Wildlife photographer Don Orkoskey searches for an American Bittern at Murphy Candler Park in Atlanta, sharing real-time observations of birds, camera gear talk with other photographers, and stories about moving from Pittsburgh and teaching photography locally.
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I guess I should have remembered to put the microphone on. Make sure my mic is working. This would be easier if I wasn't holding so many things. You get a very good close-up of my face as I'm trying to do this and screwing things up. There we go. All right, make sure I'm oriented correctly. There we go. All right, my Audio should be working, and let's go. So it'd be nice if my email didn't just insist on overriding everything else, but there we are. Couple little sparrows here who are super friendly, not at all afraid. Oh, there's a beautiful bluebird as well. Let me see if I can manage to get some shots of the bluebird. Oh, it's hard to photograph the bluebirds. Any birds really with holding the camera. So what I'm probably going to need to do is to adjust this guy here so that I can actually mount the phone up here. And I'll mostly have it face forward so you all can see what it is that I'm seeing. That should be enough to hold the camera there, so bear with me a sec. There we go. Oop, not trying to— there we go. I'm gonna switch that camera view. There we go. Um, I'm just starting out, so yeah, nothing yet.
Yeah.
But there's quite a few bluebirds right through here that I'm seeing, as well as a couple warblers, and there's a few sparrows that have been hanging right in the middle of the path. So yeah.
I saw the sandpipers over there. They're like so noisy.
Yeah, yeah, they really are. Yeah.
I was wondering if the baby geese have hatched yet. Maybe it's a little
I think it's a little early. Yeah, yeah.
They're so cute when
they
come out here.
Yeah, they're a bit of a nuisance when they're big, but they're
okay. Yeah,
you too. All right, let's see if I can. Maybe do this this way. Hey, how's it going?
Have you looking for the picture today?
Um, yeah, I was heading out there to see if I could find it. No, it's going to be much further up this way.
Yeah. Oh yeah,
it's beyond. Yeah, yeah, that's where I'm— yep, that's, that's the direction I'm heading in. So, but, uh, yeah, yeah, I'm, uh, on YouTube Live, so I'm hoping to not just have nothing but the bald spot in the, in the shot here. So, but yeah, I figured I'd come out and see if I can find it today and maybe show it off a little bit on—
I'm going walking, so yesterday I was walking a lot, so I took the 400 because the 600 is so heavy.
Yeah.
And I forgot to put it back on.
Yeah. What body are you using?
Canon 90D.
Okay, yeah. Yeah, I think you can, um, if it's in the spot that I've seen it before, I think you can get close enough to it that 400 should be—
Yeah, the 400, I've used it most of the time. I've only had the 600 for less than a year or so.
Yeah.
I didn't do with it before.
Oh yeah, yeah. When I do video, um, I use a 400, but I shoot in cropped mode, Yeah, you have a camera that does that. Yeah, well, with the video, I have to do it with the video if I want to shoot at 120 frames a second. So, but with the stills, I keep it, keep it full frame. So the focus ring on this, this lens is just too tight for me to manually focus. Which I normally would do with video, but— And
your name under your video on YouTube?
WDO Photography. WDO? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I have a lot of instructional stuff up there. YouTube has really pushed me towards wildlife-specific photography, so, um, not that it's not what I love, but, but I teach just in general, so So you know I wanted it to be more general photography teaching, but I'll look it up. Yeah, YouTube. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, he's great. Okay. Nice, that's cool. Got another birder, some binoculars. Yeah, I know it's up up further normally. Morning. Hello. It's there. Nice. Oh,
I haven't.
Where that downed pine is, like, is it basically in that area?
Well, there's there's some other photographers.
Yeah, that are there. Nice. Yeah.
Cool. Not a wasted trip, maybe. Yeah.
Usually by
the time I
get there, I, you know, there were the sandhill cranes that were here a couple weeks back, right? Um, my wife and I had gone out, I think it was Friday, we went out for dinner and came back and we're just gonna relax. So I was getting changed into comfy clothes And I saw the alert, sandhill cranes, and I ran, ran out of the room and I was like, you want to go see some, some gigantic birds? She was like,
uh,
oh nice. There, she's a, she's a bird widow.
Yeah.
Yeah, she, she came with me, but she basically just, she was like, okay, they're way too far away. I'm not impressed. This downed tree here, I had a red-shouldered hawk back in December chowing down on a squirrel that just sitting right on the edge there. Some great, great shots of it. So yeah,
a lot of red-shouldered hawks. One time, the last picture I got was when a squirrel baby fell out of the tree.
Oh,
it was probably— yeah, just like that. It didn't last long. Oh, he went down, grabbed it, and gulped it.
Yeah,
yeah.
No, this was a gory, like, half an hour long experience with this, this one.
So I looked up the window, he was taking a red-shouldered hawk, had cut, looked probably a pigeon. He was right there while he was getting— you could actually see when he got the organs out of the bird.
Yeah. Oh, I, um, I moved down in August from Pittsburgh and We had this house with this big picture window, nice big porch on the front. My neighbor equally had, you know, a nice big porch, like same, same design to the house, right? And I walked past our picture window and on her doorstep— That is a bright bluebird. On her doorstep is a Cooper's hawk that had a pigeon. And so I grabbed my lens and Went on out, and I got so many photos of it before it finally got it subdued enough that it could fly away. Can you go around this area? Yeah, yeah, you can loop all the way back up and around. So, but yeah, it looks like, yeah. Bob Lamb is probably here. We're not taking pictures at the moment. I know when I was here, when I saw it in the same spot, it was, um, it was kind of tucked away. So we'll see. Oh no, there's everybody. I'll go behind you. Hi, I'm Sherry. I'm Don. Don? Yeah, Don. Yeah, Orkoskey. He's doing his best I'm not here impression. Huh? I said he's doing his best I'm not here impression. I'm trying to see it. Right here. It's like this little clump of grass and then the bigger clump right behind it. All right, I'm gonna With the boots here. That's the type of stool I need right there. You said you guys have been here for 2 hours, is that what you said? Yeah, just waiting. Yeah. Try to find some more solid ground for this stool. Dawn? Yeah, Dawn. Yeah, good to see you guys. Um, somewhat. I just moved down from Pittsburgh in August, so this was one of the first spots I came to. And I think his name was Paul told me about the the group meeting. So yeah, DeKalb County. Yeah.
So what was that? Speaker. Oh shit.
Yeah. I was gonna say, anybody got, got any crayfish in their pockets?
Nice little modeling rock.
Yeah. Did you guys cross over from there to here, or where did you— We went all the way down at the end. Oh, okay. Maybe yelling at their dog. Oh, most likely. You know, what do you do? Let me get the gun.
Yeah, we went down there and found a little harder spot.
Oh nice. Okay. Yeah, because I came up to my ankles straight through. It really is.
Yeah. Shut up.
I was, uh. In Pittsburgh, I was getting some warblers one time in a city park, and this guy comes through. I could hear him a quarter of a mile before he got to me, and he's a lawyer. He's got his AirPods in, and he's talking on the— yeah, on the phone about a case using people's names. And I was like, I could probably call the—
Is that a privilege?
Yeah. I could call the county bar association, like let them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he said, "I want to see a fly." I'm like. Yeah, yeah. I was giving a lesson to a student, like January, Pittsburgh, you know, icy. We're down by the rivers and a whole bunch of gulls there. And this guy on one of those bikes with the giant tires, right? He's like, I'm gonna ride through. And I'm like, no, leave them alone. Leave them alone. But he did. Yeah. Okay, thanks, buddy. Yeah, my student was like a high school kid, so he's got like a 300mm kit lens, right, on his like Rebel, you know, Canon Rebel, uh, whatever. And, uh, yeah, I'm like, no, don't— like, they're approachable. He can actually get some photos of these birds. Like, leave them alone.
Yeah. I know, right? You'd be like, hey,
what are
you guys doing, by the way?
Yeah, yeah, I got, I got one of him zoomed in there. You can see, yeah, with his foot up.
Yeah, yeah, that's, that's pretty.
So Yeah, when they were getting shots of them and we couldn't see them, I took a couple pictures of them over there.
That's some of the best we've seen so far.
Yeah, the other— I've come to see them a couple of times. Yeah, I got some shots of everybody over there.
Yeah, that's kind of what I was doing, except I can't pull back that far.
Yeah. What do you got on there?
I've got a TC, a 1.4 and a 200-600. Yeah, yeah, I can pull back to 280. Yeah, I
can't. What are you shooting with?
I got a Z8 with a 600 f/4, but I got a TC in it, so I'm at 840.
Oh wow, okay.
So I got a lot of eyes.
Yeah, a
lot of feet.
Nice.
Not together.
Yeah, I thought about bringing my Teleconverter, but this thing fully zoomed out at 600 is 6.3, so I have to manually focus with it. So like, yeah, no, forget that. I have a 400 that I've put the teleconverter on. I'm like, okay, this, this, it works sometimes, but it doesn't always. Connection doesn't always.
Yeah, TCs are very temperamental depending on the lens and the combination.
Yeah, I use it more on, uh, more for video, so I put it on, um, my 80-400 when I go to like the Chattahoochee and cormorants out in the middle of the water, so.
Are you on Facebook?
Uh, yeah, I don't use Facebook very much at all, but yeah, I'm on Instagram and, um, and YouTube. Like, I got YouTube Live going here and I've had zero people the entire time, like half an hour. So like, okay,
nobody wants to see what I'm doing.
Yeah, it's, you know, Thursday afternoon, it's not a busy time. What's your Instagram handle? Orkoskey. You can find it through WDO Photography. That's my, like, business. So, but, and I share on my WDO Photography Atlanta account and my WDO Photography account that I had back in Pittsburgh, and then also on Orkoskey, which is my last name. So. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, thanks. Nice. Yeah, stalking something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they're building a nest. It's right up in, I think, one of the pines. Come on, Mr. Hen. Act like a baby. He really didn't last very long. Yeah, he took off pretty quick. He didn't want to be a part of the whole process. He said he's never walked up this far. Oh, he hasn't? No. Yeah. I can see part of a wing just poking out from some of the grass. Wing or the backside of him or something. I wish this monopod went lower. All right. This stool has sunken way too far into the ground. I can no longer use that. Felt like I was about to eat my knee sitting on that thing. You did? I gotta see that. I was just poking at the front of it. Okay, good. Okay. Yeah, move. Did he move backwards? No. Somebody. That was David. Did David forget his car? Oh, yeah. No, he's got people, family. Oh, I just saw him take off all of a sudden. Oh. That's what it was. They weren't yelling at their dog, they were yelling for him. That's why he took off so fast, to tell her to shut up.
Isn't my people sorry?
He's staying perfectly still, it seems. It's funny what the audience is like. They're the
same people as we are. So when I was in the Orlando Wetlands, I was sitting there shooting glossy ibis, and I kept seeing something move in front of them. And I focused, and I'm like, that was the daddy.
Oh, okay.
He was just hanging on. And I couldn't figure out what was moving. I couldn't see it really good. I was trying to get the glossy ibis just right in the sun. I didn't even notice him. He was, he was so blended in, but he was in dead grass. At least this one's
kind of shining. Right.
Yeah, he's perfectly camouflaged in the dead grass. Yeah, I couldn't see him. And the lady behind me goes, is that a bittern? I'm like, yes. I've never seen one. They're definitely not a year or two old, but the logs are still— Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, I like that one. That's a good ash log.
That's their migration, and then blue is their their winter territory.
Yeah. You ever seen them in Pittsburgh?
Huh. Get your back. Oh, here he goes. Come on, buddy, just back up. Back up about 10 feet. Yeah, well, it's just a nice day. I think everybody's getting out. Especially after these cold days we've had. David, looks like you got a small wound. Maybe 80 degrees. Oh yeah. Oh gosh, this weekend. Yeah, yeah. I would imagine they can see it. Oh yeah, yeah. He's stalking something. Yeah, it's a little bitty one. Yeah, maybe he's just walking around. Cameron. Yeah. Hmm? Where else do you go to shoot around here? I'm pretty close to Clyde Shepherd, so I go there quite often. Wow, she'll be having babies there soon. Yeah, excited for that. But I've been trying to explore. Like, I've, you know, when I got here in the fall, I went— oh, I don't even remember the name of the place. There's like a long walking path Near a golf course that has some wetlands up in, not Johns Creek, but somewhere up near there. And then I've gone down to like Constitution Lakes, and I was at, um, Gresham Park the other day. So yeah.
Mountain Park, which is up off of 92, there's a pair of bald eagles that Hopefully had hatched some babies.
Oh nice.
You can almost see them every time you get up.
Oh wow, okay. I'll have to check that out.
West Point Lake's another good one when the babies are growing up. There'll be 6, 7 babies down there at a time.
Yeah.
There's a dam there.
Okay. Oh yeah, yeah, they love that. I'm teaching with the Atlanta School of Photography, so I've gone out to like Aware, like out at Arabia Mountain.
Oh, really?
And done like that. That's a fun workshop. Oh, man. Oh, it's so like with— it's like at the base of Arabia Mountain. Like— It's on Conyers. Yeah. Oh, is it Conyers or Wycombe? Yeah, it's— yeah, I don't know. I've only been here for like 6 months. You go out 20 a certain ways and then head south. But they have a great horned owl. They have— that's one of their ambassador birds. Oh, that's cool. So they're open Saturdays and Sundays that you can just like see kind of what they're doing. But with the Atlanta School of Photography, there's like twice a year workshops where they actually bring those ambassador animals out. So they have A small hawk. I don't remember what breed it is.
No small hawk.
It's not a red-tailed American kestrel. It's not a kestrel, but it's about that size. It's like a little bit bigger, I think. So they have a barn owl. So yeah,
peregrine
falcon. It's definitely not a peregrine. But it's, uh, because it's, I mean, it's got like that red shoulder, red tail kind of coloration to it, right? It's a lot more brown than, than grays. Have you been to the Chattahoochee Nature Center? I haven't been to the nature center, but I've been, you know, all along the river.
They do raptor exhibits once in a while.
Yeah.
They bring in like a red-tailed and then a screech owl, and I think it was a barred owl as well.
Yeah, yeah, they have, um, at Aware they have, um, a crow that, that talks. His name is Velcro. Um,
yeah, yeah, eagles in a nest or a cage.
Yeah, at the nature center.
Different kinds of owls.
Yeah, owls are my favorite.
I love owls. Rookery for the great blue herons right there at the Nature Center.
Like out on that little lake, so across, like right on the river?
Oh, you come right out from the center to the balcony, you can look across and see them nesting in the pine trees.
Nice. I saw—
Really close to the center.
I was doing, um, an engagement shoot. I don't normally do that, but this I looked up wildlife photographers that do, uh, that do other types of photography, I guess. He used ChatGPT, he told me. Um, so, and they hike a lot at the Chattahoochee. So we went down to the, um, like whitewater, uh, like Long Island area there. It's Whitewater or something or other, Whitewater Creek or something like that that spills into it there in the parking area. Mmhmm. In East Palisades. And I was there set up waiting for him to surprise his girlfriend with the engagement ring. And there were— there's a rookery that's on that long island, the tip of it. And there were, I think, 6 herons that all took flight at the same time. And I'm like, I'm so tempted to just like turn around and get photos of them instead of— but he wanted to surprise her and he didn't want her to be like self-conscious. So I got fully dressed up in wildlife garb and I had video set on the spot that I marked for him, you know, in the— went on the beach there and just scratched an area in the sand. So then
The botanical gardens. My brother-in-law proposed to his fiancée.
Nice.
Just before Christmas.
Yeah, I don't normally— that's not like, you know, I do a lot of like corporate and nonprofit events. I used to do weddings, but I, you know, I don't do private events anymore. They're just— it's too much.
Retired person as well.
This is my hobby. Yeah, Don is as well. Yeah, little camera takers.
I wonder if I should go down and get some shots from up there. You know, you— I think you got the better shots here. Yeah. The ones that I was getting over there, nowhere near as good as from behind the light, but it might be worth it to still get some light on them too. I was tempted to go around. Yeah.
But I don't want to disturb the ones that are here. Yeah, I was thinking about that too. Then you get that nice shade in the background. If he ever pops his head up, get some side light in there. Yeah, but it's a big edge if he comes over that way. Yeah, I hate shooting down. Yeah, yeah, I want to be on the level with him as much as possible. They're on the move, so maybe he's on the move.
I still can't believe he came up right over there. I know, right? Yeah, this is crazy.
It's like a perfect little natural blind right there.
That's what I said. I said, oh, he took off so fast. That's what I thought. Told you, no card in his camera. The way I saw his face and he went You know how I know that? Because I've done it. I know that face.
You said you had the Z8?
Yeah.
That's dual cards, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's helpful. Then if you forget, you're like, oh, I didn't take that out of the computer. Guess I got to use the CF or whatever. Yeah.
Which one you got?
A D850, and I got— I have a Z6 II that I'm thinking about the Z8 or the Z6 III is really looking—
I love the Z6 III. I got that too. I use video usually with that.
Yeah.
That's a great camera. It's got bird detection.
Yeah. Oh, he's checking on us. You guys ready for me? You ready for me?
That is so funny. He's like, yeah, I'll give you 3 shots. That's it. Yeah, that is so funny. Still
there?
Yep, they're still there.
I wouldn't follow my footsteps. Unless you got waders on. Yeah, I got an appointment that I gotta— I got an appointment at 2, so I don't have, I don't have all day for him. He needs— oh, I see him moving a little bit.
Definitely hope that's a good thing. Yeah.
Did you get any good shots of him earlier? Like, because you guys have been here for so long.
At one point, just before you got here.
Yeah, that was about it. Yeah, he's not been real cooperative.
Oh, there he is. Yeah, I think he may have caught something when he jerked his head real fast. He either caught something or maybe a crayfish is nipping at his foot. Oh, he had his mouth open, but I didn't have him in focus. He's also He's scratching himself.
He's scratching himself. What is he doing? Not quite.
He's watching the— watching the airplane. He just caught some.
Is he at the end part now? At the grass?
Oh, he was, but he's gone. He went back that way. 2 hours here and we probably
had 2 photo shoots. I had a great photo shoot here.
There he is.
Okay, that was a great photo shoot. Just can't review them later, I guess. At
least I saw it. It's all about the experience. Well, at least
you captured it. Yeah, yeah, for a brief moment it was there, but I did get some up there, so I'll have some shots of it.
Not as good as what was here. Have you been able to see it yet before? No, this is my first chance because we had our company up there came in from New Orleans on Saturday. So we've been pretty much doing stuff, but they allowed me to come here today. We've come back and forth. I was hoping he'd still be here. I was too, and then I saw him. Oh, I see him. Yeah, hopefully he's out there. If he keeps going— he's got his head up, he's moving his neck. Yeah, where you're at, he's blocked by that tuft of green grass. Just right here, you see him?
Yeah, if you come around this way, you can.
Yeah, we were walking yesterday and I didn't want to take heavy lens because we were going for miles. Forgot to put my 600 on today. Everything was wrong today. Everything. It's time to wait. Yeah, but if he, um, if he's still here Sunday, I think they'll go back. Then I'll head better lands and see if he's still around. I'm heading back north. Are you? Canada north or just— Yeah, trail north. Probably spent more time in Toronto this year than in Red Lake. Just this year though. Toronto homeless got called on. I guess I'll be going back. Oh, yeah. You'll be back to Nova Scotia one way or another. Yeah, maybe this summer. Hoping this summer. She's got an aunt in New Jersey that's 4th stage cancer, so she wants to get there. I figure if I can get to New Jersey, maybe we'll keep driving, whether we get there even quite
You just got to wait six hours in the TSA line.
Yeah, hopefully that's all settled by then. I've been driving this entire time.
It's yeah, it's worth it. It's worth it not to even have the hassles of airports or anything. My wife's got to fly for a conference on Wednesday to Chicago because I can't. I don't have the ability to.
Don't have the patience to.
Yeah.
Wait and see if it actually happens.
We've been getting a lot of snow this year. Yeah. Up in Nova Scotia too.
It's just 2 days ago they got a real bunch. These guys look like they're getting on their walkers. I know. Okay. Well, good to see you again, Ben.
Yeah, I might go.
Don't sink.
Right. Follow the deer tracks here. Nope, that's a log. What's that? I found him. He's straight out from From where I am here, it's not a good view of him, but that's where he is. Yeah, seems like they got a much better vantage point. Yeah. That's always the way. I wonder if maybe there's Anything clear? Because there's that big stick that's behind him, so it might be Sparrow. Ah, he's completely blocked. Yeah, maybe being over there might have a clear shot, but— Yeah, yeah, same. He's got all the tadpoles he can eat. Looks like somebody else tried that at one point and left a boot behind. You see that? Not a guy. Maybe they didn't. I didn't look too far on the other side of the boot. Yes. Alright, I'm gonna head up there. Good seeing you guys. Come up right behind you here. Oh yeah, yeah, you got a good view of him, huh? Yeah. Right down here. Straight up there. No, you said too low. All right. In my experience, as soon as somebody leaves, that's when things happen. So I'm gonna take off. Take off? Yeah. Sacrifice? I'll be the sacrifice. Take it easy. We'll see you around. Oh yeah. Yeah, good to see you. Right? It's gonna do like the Warner Brothers frog with the top hat and cane. Right out here is our little— I think so. Oh, he's kind of nicely visible there. Yeah, he's hunting because he's doing this kind of motion. All right. Well, I'm gonna go. How long are you gonna be out? Um, not too long, just an hour, maybe a little more than that. Right, so I gotta lock my camera in place first. Here we go.
Is he out there again?
Yeah.
Is he feeding on the crayfish?
Yeah, and I think tadpoles. There's so many tadpoles there.
This spot is great because the contrast is so great. You can see him with the—
Oh yeah.
Were you here yesterday when there was a buck on the other side at the same— so he was in the grasses and then there was a buck on the other side.
Oh wow, that sounds awesome. No, I wasn't here for that.
I've seen him 5 times now and I've been a birder. Come every day.
Yeah, he's got a big crowd today.
Yeah, have a great time.
Yeah, you too. Okay, now that that is over, you can grab my camera. Begin to head back. So it doesn't look like anybody has joined me this entire time. No, go for it.
A lot of activity over here, but what are you guys looking at?
Uh, American bittern. It's in the heron family. Nice.
They just here for a short bit, or—
Yeah, yeah, they're migratory.
Okay, cool, man.
Yeah. So yeah, it doesn't seem like anyone has tuned in in the almost 90 minutes that I've been doing this, but, uh, that's all right. Maybe I'll schedule A Facebook Live session and talk to you all before I do it. In the meantime, if anyone sort of is watching but not watching, you know, I know how that works, then my name's Don. I'm a wildlife photographer amongst other things. Hi, Don. Other things. And I'm in metro Atlanta where I was photographing an American Bittern, which is a decent-sized bird. They are not as big as like a Great Blue Heron, kind of in between a heron A great blue heron and a little green heron size, maybe kind of egret size, if you've seen small little egrets. They are a visitor here. This is their migratory path, so they'll be heading all the way up to Canada very shortly. But it's been here for a while, hiding out in this And we've been— myself and a bunch of others have been trying to get good photos of it in the time that it's here. This is a great little park that I'm at. It's Murphy Candler Park. It's in the suburb of Brookhaven, and has this large lake which was drained when I got here last year. They are allowing it to naturally fill back up now, which will make it an attractive spot for all sorts of wildlife. So I'm excited to see what happens here over the next If you are watching but not watching, right? Because I think you can watch until that thing shows up and tells you to click on the screen to watch or whatever. If you're doing so, Drop in the chat. Go ahead and hit that watch live and drop in the chat. Let me know where you're at, what type of wildlife you see around you, what the weather's like where you are. Some crows overhead. Some great crows here. They're a lot of fun to watch. They, you know, this is The time of year when there's a lot of baby animals, a ton of tadpoles in the water, as well as pretty small little baby turtles that have hatched. And the crows love to mess with those turtles. They'll flip them on their back and play with them, oftentimes eat them, but... And obviously the turtle wouldn't take that as play. It's a very scary situation for a turtle on shore, but that's nature for you. That's how crows do, if you will. So what are you gonna do? But This is a really amazing park. I haven't explored it too much. I live not too far from here. I live just south of this little suburb of Brookhaven, and so it's a pretty easy, pretty easy trip to get up here. You can see all the wildlife. It's this great big, great big lake, really nice suburban park, but I don't think I've explored much of it, maybe 10% of it at this point. So now that said, I haven't explored like the swimming pool. Yeah, I was gonna say, I haven't explored the swimming pool. Stuff, but playgrounds, so I probably won't ever explore those. But in terms of the nature areas, I think I've got a lot more, a lot more places I could go in this park to see stuff I've yet to see. But for now, I am done with my adventure coming up to see this bittern and got to see a lot of other photographers and birders, so that was fun. This bird is attracting a ton of attention from the birding community here locally, so that's why everybody's But we'll see. I think I got at least a couple keepers that I can share on social media. I'll probably post those more to Instagram rather than here on YouTube, but it's all the same handle if you follow WDO Photography. Maybe get a chance to see those should I have some keepers that I share. So, and I think I'm about to get back to the parking lot. So with that being said, I think I will log off of here for now, and like I said, I'll try again doing YouTube Live some other time. So if you did watch, even if you didn't acknowledge you're watching, thank you for doing so. I appreciate it. Thank you. Oh, it's a little Eastern Phoebe. No, actually it's a warbler of some sort, like a Yellow-rumped Warbler or something maybe. But anyhow, appreciate you watching, and I hope you'll like and subscribe— subscribe to my channel, and I will see you See you in the future. Thanks so much. Bye-bye.










