If you photograph Roseate Spoonbills for any amount of time you discover there’s more to them than their pink feathers and flat beaks.
Spoonbills are clowns, and unpredictable. Besides playing ‘king of the hill’ whenever there’s a tall stick around they like to be close with about any other species. Alligators are fair game and they have little fear. I’ve never seen a gator bite a Spoonbill, but I have seen them bitten by a Spoony.
Below two Spoonbills walked all around a gator, finally one thought he should yell at him.
Why ? He’s a Spoonbill so there’s no real reason.
So comical… until that gator decides he’s had enough. But you are right, I’ve seen wading birds right up beside those toothsome jaws, without any incident at all. Maybe the gator has learned that birds with some height will easily get away, while the “poor little” coots… well, chicken of the sea.
😂, they love the blue crabs too.