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Framed in Red
Today’s post features a pair of nesting Great Egrets, in brilliant breeding plumage, that I captured a few years ago at the Venice Rookery, in Venice, Florida. The red-berried plant is a Brazilian Pepper. Although quite photogenic, it’s roots are many and can extend for long distances to drink up water, making it an unwanted, […]
Posted in 2014, 2021, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: egret
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Big Bird in Flight
Today’s photo collection focuses on some of the Great Egrets as they flew around the rookery at the Venice Rookery (Florida) recently. I always view this bird as a magnificent sight to see, particularly in flight: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 7D Mark II body and Canon 7D body Canon 500mm, f/4 IS lens (top […]
Posted in 2020, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: egret, Florida, Venice Rookery
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Feathery Delight
Today’s post features the Great Egret in breeding plumage. The Great Egret is a wonderful sight, when captured in breeding plumage. A couple of the most notable changes is the green “lores” that develop at the base of the long beak, along with the wonderful, feathers that showcase this bird. In this top image, the […]
Posted in 2020, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: egret, Florida, Venice Rookery
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Fun Friday: Don’t Step on That Gator!
Today’s Fun Friday post is two more photos taken at an alligator pool in Myakka River State Park, Florida. Among the seemingly endless number of alligators at this small water pool, birds were busy foraging among the gators as if they weren’t even there! Although today’s images seem to show a Great Egret stepping on/very […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Reptiles and Amphibians, Travel Photography
Tags: alligator, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, egret, Florida, Myakka River State Park, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, winter
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Fun Friday: Where’s the Beef?
From a kayak outing at nearby Amarugia Highlands CA, in west-central Missouri. While kayaking in the early morning, I ran across this group of Cattle Egrets: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 1D Mark 3 body Canon EF 100mm-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens, with Canon 1.4x TC, shot at 460mm Handheld, with IS “On”, from a kayak ISO […]
Posted in 2015, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Fun Friday post, Nature Photography, Photography from a kayak
Tags: 2015, Amarugia CA, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, Cass County, egret, kayaking, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, spring
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Fun Friday: Anybody There?
Wading birds, in particular the herons and egrets, can be comical to watch. As in the case with this Great Egret (Ardea alba), they will often cock their heads at an angle, conjuring up all sorts of possible captions! In reality, they are simply working at minimizing the glare from the water so that they […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Fun Friday post, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, cute, egret, Florida, Green Cay Wetlands, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, winter
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A Little Snow on the Beach
While photographing birds on the beach at St. Petersburg, this Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) flew in and foraged along the edge of a little pool of water. As he approached us, I captured this image: Settling on the beach, this little beauty preened a bit and posed for us: As he walked over to a […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birds, birdwatching, Blog, egret, Florida, nature, nature photography, photography, St. Petersburg, travel, winter
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Snowy Egret
Today’s post features some Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula) I photographed while they foraged along the boardwalk at Green Cay Wetlands: This next egret has a fish in his beak: Identification of the snowy egret is primarily by the “golden slippers”, differentiating them from the great egret, which has black legs and feet. These birds tend […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, egret, Florida, Green Cay Wetlands, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, winter
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Fun Friday: There Goes the Neighborhood!
Today’s “Fun Friday” post comes from the Venice bird rookery, located in the middle of Venice, Florida. As I photographed the nesting and roosting birds at the rookery, there constantly seemed to be some action going on at the far end of the island, so I picked up my equipment and moved down to see […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Fun Friday post, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, cute, egret, Florida, heron, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, Venice Rookery, winter
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Where’s the Beef?
As this cute little Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) foraged along the Lee County Manatee Viewing Area, the old Wendy’s commercial of “Where’s the Beef?” kept running through my head! Then I thought to myself, “Well, he’s not far from where he should be … at least the sea cows (Manatees) are nearby!” As it’s name […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, egret, Florida, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, winter
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