Florida Gators, Texas Turkey, and a road to nowhere...

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Went on a ~17 mile bike ride through some state water management lands. Got few nice shots, barely escaped some rain, and found a CPL filter along the trail. Thanks for looking!</p>
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<p>1. The Duck came out a little soft, but I love the splashes he left behind. </p>
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<p>2. The &quot;Texas Turkey&quot; were all over the place. This was the only one I saw with a red head... </p>
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<p>3. Biggest Gator of the whole trip... waited a while for him to move, but he didn't. Actually he was in the same place about an hour later when I was on the way back.</p>
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<p>4. Liked the branch he was standing on.</p>
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<p>5. Testing their fate...</p>
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<p>6. My &quot;aha!&quot; moment of realising that waiting quietly in one place gets you much closer to the birds than trying to sneak up on them. That's why I always see those pics of people in hunting blinds with huge lenses. <img src="http://thephotoforum.com/forum/images/smilies/lol.gif" border="0" alt="" title="LOL" smilieid="25" class="inlineimg" /></p>
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<p>7. Another Gator. </p>
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<p>My wife titled this &quot;The road to no where&quot; but it didn't seem that way to me until the ride back home.</p>
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<p>Would love to hear your comments. I'm still getting used to using my zoom... ended up with quite a few soft/motion blurred pics but I think I'm getting better with practice. I also ended up manually focusing for a lot of the day because the auto focus just didn't seem to be working as fast/well as I would like that morning.</p>
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