It is was a great morning for the Base Camp Class, there was a storm rolling in and that made for some great mood shots in the low clouds.

The morning was great and we will have to see if we can race the storm and get some more shooting in before it hits.

Captured with 1D Mark IIN 100-400f5.6 on Lexar digital film

I tell you that this week just keeps getting better and better. Today we rolled out to the Badlands of South Dakota. We ran smack dab into a heard of Big Horned Sheep that were having a great time playing around in the early hours of the morning.  This one was playing hide and seek.

And then there’s this little guy.  We went out to Prairie Dog Town to photograph these little fellas, and let me tell you, if you wanted to you could spend all day watching these guys run around.

Big Horned Sheep Captured with 1D Mark IIN 100-400f56 on Lexar digital film

Black Tailed Prairie Dog Captured with 1D Mark IIN 600f4 with a 1.4 TC on Lexar digital film

So this afternoon we went in search of Rocky Mountain Big Horned Sheep, and we found them!!! Matter of fact they were so comfortable that they got to close for us to even shoot!!!! If you want to see how close go over to Moose’s blog and take a look. These little ladies were great!!!!

Captured with 1D Mark IIN 600f4 with 1.4 TC on Lexar digital film

What a great way to start the day. We went back out to North Beach in Fort De Soto and the Brown Pelicans were out having a great time fishing and flying round. It was a great final day of our Florida Base Camp and now it is time to head home and get geared up for DLWS Moab.

Captured with 1D Mark IIN 600f4 .4 teleconvertor on Lexar digital film

So today was slam packed with the Base Camp gang going to two different rookeries around the Tampa area. It is amazing where these things just pop up. What make them so success for birds to roost and breed there is the fact that it needs to be an island that is surrounded by water that an alligator inhabits. So why the alligator? To keep predators away from the nests. This was an amazing day of photography that will not be forgotten by anyone anytime soon. I was able to get images of bird species that I never had before!!! I was able to capture an Ahinga, a Cattle Egret, and a Rosey Spoonbill. Tomorrow we’re headed out to Honeymoon Island for some Osprey, Great horns, and what ever else may fly our way.

All Images Captures with 1D Mark IN 600f4 with 1.4 teleconvertor on Lexar digital film