Tag: wading birds
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I’ve been shooting long enough that most sightings don’t stop me in my tracks anymore. The spoonbill is different. Every time I see one, I still have a small involuntary reaction, like my brain needs a second to accept what it’s looking at. Part of it is the color. Nothing else in these wetlands is…
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“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir Great Egret chicks reach the point where they’re climbing around the nest and getting rowdy at about three weeks. The Studio of That’s roughly where these three are. The down is still thick, the beaks are still that soft yellow,…
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“Even half-asleep they had such faith in the world that had made them — tilting through the water, unruffled, sure.” — Mary Oliver, on egrets The Great Egret almost didn’t make it. In the late 1800s, these birds were hunted by the tens of thousands for their breeding plumes — the same long feathers you…