Big Bird in Flight

By Jim | Published April 13, 2020

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 […]

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Feathery Delight

By Jim | Published April 7, 2020

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 […]

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Fun Friday: Don’t Step on That Gator!

By Jim | Published January 8, 2016

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 […]

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Fun Friday: Where’s the Beef?

By Jim | Published January 30, 2015

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 […]

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Fun Friday: Anybody There?

By Jim | Published April 11, 2014

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 […]

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A Little Snow on the Beach

By Jim | Published April 2, 2014

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 […]

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Snowy Egret

By Jim | Published March 18, 2014

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 […]

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Fun Friday: There Goes the Neighborhood!

By Jim | Published February 7, 2014

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 […]

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Where’s the Beef?

By Jim | Published February 4, 2014

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 […]

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Reflection of Beauty

By Jim | Published January 25, 2014

Reflections are always something I watch for when photographing nature. My recent visit to Myakka River State Park was no exception … and I had plenty of opportunities to photograph reflections, such as this Great Egret (Ardea alba), fishing in the Myakka River: The Great Egret is a beautiful bird. But catching one with it’s […]

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