There were lots of critters around the two story observation deck at the edge of Sawgrass Lake in mid May. Pretty much all of them were best captured with the 100-400mm, so these are all Mike’s pictures, and he did the conversion as well.

bullfrog

marsh rabbit

green heron with young alligator behind

one of a pair of Black-Necked Stilts

I’d think this tactic of flying right above the water with its lower mandible scooping through the water at Sawgrass would yield more water plants than anything else, but we watched this Black Skimmer successfully catch a good sized fish by tracing through the more open tracks in the lake.