We were leaving the old rice fields when a photographer we know from the Port Royal area waved us down. Well, he just pointed to a short trail down to a swampy salt marsh.
He had spotted Spoonbills deep in some pine boughs. We never would have seem them. A nice find, and even nicer he lets us know.
I like these mellow looking juveniles with their feathered heads!
They look almost bird like. The adults… the word bizarre comes to mind.
You know I think these birds are my favourite from the ones you photograph.
Roseate Spoonbills and Reddish Egret always stop people in their tracks out there. Both are very different, and very beautiful. 😁😁😁 photographers will literally run from Spoonbills at the rumor of a Reddish 🤣. But the spoony are more common and ultimately the ‘peoples favorite’.