I recently had to send my camera in for repair and needed to take it out for a checkout, I had been having problems with the Auto Focus, needless to say I wanted to try it out on some action shots. The weather was still cool and the wind was blowing when I remembered that the geese and ducks were always at Shoaff Lake in Franke Park, I quickly put my camera bag in to my van and we were off to Franke Park. Just I had anticipated the ducks and geese were in abundance with several sea gulls flying round. I pulled on my hat and got out of the van with my camera and found a nice seat at a picnic table not far from the water. I quickly realized the wind chill was more than I had expected forcing me to pull out my glove and proceeded to take +250 pictures of ducks paddling by geese coming up trying to beg a piece of bread or other donation that is normally handed out by humans when they visit. I found the common sea gull to be very interesting as they flew around taking advantage of the wind and occasionally dropping down to scoop up a missed morsel. On one occasion I was focused on a specific sea gull circling around it then dropped down on a run to scoop a morsel and I started taking a series of picture, I notice a disturbance just in front of the sea gull with the sea gull appearing to jump as it veered off course, later when I was looking that the photographs it became obvious why the sea gull change direction a fish beat it to the morsel or minnow that it was heading for.
