McCormick's Creek waterfall after several days of heavy spring rains. Brief video.

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I didn't move the camera to video early enough, and because of buffering it took a dew seconds to start even then. But here are a few seconds of the fight, including two herons tumbling together.

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I decided to switch to my longer zoom and "get closer." I also needed to change my battery . . . and found to my consternation that my "spare" battery was actually my depleted battery from an earlier outing. But when I arrived home and uploaded my shots, I found that in about 11 minutes I had taken 1300 photos (on rapid fire) and two videos, so that one battery I did have served me well! (I've had several 1,000-photo days the last few years, but I don't think I've ever had a 1,000-photo ten minutes before. Yikes!) I would have liked to have gotten my longer lens switched out so I could have been zoomed a bit closer on this one, but the video shows several drops (one gull repeatedly dropping a stick and then a second one picking up and dropping a rock) and a lot of other gull activity.

Video length is a little over one minute.

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This was a pretty long zoom, but it was interesting to see the herons flying around and then to see them slipping and sliding as they attempted to land. Still photos coming later, but I wanted to go ahead and post the video.

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The sound of its roar was surprisingly loud, so I had to take a video that showed the waterfall iced over and then zoomed in on the sections where one can still see the flow underneath through gaps in the ice.

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