The sun rose quickly in the sky so when this stork started posing in front of the camera you hade to to the best you could using the light as it was. In this case, it meant experimenting with different exposure settings on the backlit scene.
Already an hour after sunrise the light is hard and the pictures easily gets flat. Not least white birds are difficult to shoot under such light conditions. Here the herons were lined up with the sun behind them, which gave some new possibilities with the backlight during the shooting.
After breakfeast a mixed flock of little and cattle egrets has decided to take siesta in a place where they have a good overview of the surroundings. This is a little egret who has begun to preen himself without realizing that there is a photographer in the floating hide nearby.