Markus Varesvuo - Hungarian Puszta 05

I spent one more night in a shore hide, hidden inside a reef barrier, facing a small man-made pond where Bence had hauled almost 100 kg of fish to attract egrets. But before the egrets, we got the ever quick gulls, filling the air above the pond, in front of the hide’s window. The gulls took their share of the fish, and gradually the egrets started to gather, taking their que from the gulls and venturing out to feast on some fast food. Great White Egrets, Grey Herons and some Spoonbills formed our gang in the beautiful, fading sunset light. The show of feeding, flying, rivalling birds, and beautiful springtime plumage is a grand sight.

My main focus was on getting super portraits but I was also swopping between different size lenses, from 14 to 500 mm. With the 500 mm and using 1.4 and even double extenders, I tried to get extreme close ups of heads and bills, sometimes also some plumage details, and with a 14 mm lense, very wide group shots of a bigger crowd, showing also the environment and the sunset.