Venice, Florida was the venue on today's agenda.  First stop the Venice Rookery.  Despite the decimation of the Brazilian Pepper bushes there is still plenty to photograph on the island.       All the images above were captured with a Canon 7D and a 500 mm F4 lens mounted using a Sidekick.As the light got harsh we left for the Venice Dump - yes the dump.  The dump has an abundance of vultures and eagles but we were found Sandhill Crane pairs - eight of them.  The two Sandhill images above were photographed with a Canon 7D and a 500mm F4 lens.Lunch and then on to the fishing pier:   Both the Tern, Ruddy Turnstone and the two Gull images were shot with a 7D and a 70 - 200 mm F2.8 lens.We waited for sunset - dinner and back to Fort Myers Beach. This last image was shot using a Canon 7D, 16 - 35 mm F2.8 lens and a Singh Ray VariND filter.All images in my florida posts with the exception of the Venice Pier were processed using Lightroom 4 only and no plugins.  The Venice pier was processed in Photoshop CS5 with Nik Viveza and Nik Color Efex Pro plugins.