The navigation got tight at times in the inlets, and I ended up hauling out some fancy strokes like bow-ruddering to pivot the kayak around the corners in the light current produced by the outgoing tide.This Great Egret was easy pickings once I get back to the open water. They line the edges of the inlets and occasionally pick themselves up and switch to a new, more promising fishing spot.I also had an opportunity to get close to some Ospreys . It's actually hard to keep an appropriate distance in a couple of spots on the narrow, long salt marsh inlets, so I ended up quite close to this particular bird and his catfish as he was looking for a place to stop and snack near his nest.At another nest, I ended up spooking the nesting bird, which I hate to do, but the inlet simply wasn't wide enough for me to get any farther away from the nest as I passed. The bird left the nest, made one territorial display circle, and returned to it, so I shot back over my shoulder as she landed again.I don't typically take pictures of gulls, but I believe this one is a Great Black-backed Gull , and it's a very striking bird.Even though I got other great shots today, my favorite is this one below, of cooperative Barn Swallow who let me drift very, very close, to the point that I maxed out the minimum focal distance of my lens!