Baby Alligator

Since I hardly ever shoot anything other than birds, my 400mm 5.6L rarely is off my 50D. But...I've never shot in Florida before! I quickly found that in many areas, especially when shooting the wading birds, they were too close for my 400mm. That's never a problem for any bird around South Dakota! But I did start to shoot some with my rarely used 70-200 4.0L. I had it on when I came across two of these little alligators, less than a foot long each, a ways back on the trail at Shark Valley in the Everglades. I didn't see "mom" until I was leaning down and shooting these little guys, but she was a good 15 feet back and not too worried about me.

Canon 50D, 70-200 4.0L @ 135mm, ISO 400, 1/200, f9.