Watching one of these mixed flocks feeding is like a machine in motion. They line up, either in a row or across open water, then marsh forward catching everything in their path.

Both the Wood Storks and Roseate Spoonbills feed like this. When they both join together they can actually empty a pond of prey. When they hit the far shore, it’s a U-turn and a marsh back where they started.

When post processing I use Lightroom, and incorporate DxO software as needed. These images were done 100% with DxO Photolab. A new Photolab 9 has been released including many of the masking functions I like in Adobe. I need to refresh myself with the day to day use of DxO.

Lightroom has always given me grief with speed, sluggish functions, and generally a memory hog. I even retired a perfectly good laptop that runs DxO great, but not Lightroom.

Soon I will be upgrading Photolab and once again trying to use it exclusively, retiring Adobe.