The city council meeting room for Charleston, South Carolina.
You could almost expect the members to walk in with powered wigs and waist coats. And yes, that painting of George Washington is an original.
BTW, some of the light bulbs are original Thomas Edison Co. bulbs. I mean really, who uses the original inventors first light bulbs 😳.
A few of these birds have nested with all the other wading birds. They’re not as aggressive as the other bigger Egrets so they must be deeper in the brush.
I’ve only seen a full Cattle Egrets rookery once. We were lucky to hit the Okefenokee swamp with very high water once. The extra depth allowed us to go further in the swamp than usual and see their rookery. We were right in the middle of the Peach/White birds. Pretty spectacular.
Best viewed large.
She decided on a water front location.
Several Tricolored-herons nested along the edge of some pines, almost over the water, and probably not enough overhead protection. Now, they do this every year so maybe it’s not really a bad spot.
I was carefully watching this Green Heron, I had even taken several shots of him. Yet somehow I missed the ‘snatch’ of the big minnow.
I think he was having a hard time hanging onto the small fish. As quick as he could, the fish was ‘down the hatch’. I guess you don’t take chances with a nice catch.
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So, I said to myself, I need something different.
I’ve been getting some good opportunities with wading birds. The web site still could get stale no matter what the bird photographs produce.
I walked out back…
… and suddenly there was that something different.
They don’t pose like this, they just don’t.
There is a lot of low bushes and brush in a corner of the big pond at the Cypress Wetlands. The resident birds there is a big Hodge Podge of smaller wading birds. The Black-crowns have moved in with them.
I doubt they will nest there. However for now they are mingled out in the open.
It’s a Grackle, in a swamp. And that’s the problem.
Grackles have black beaks. This one doesn’t, in any of the photographs.
The obvious here is the swamp mud he is in.
This last image is classic Boat-tailed.
I love shots that have a lot going on. This is one of them. While it’s nice to have a close up, you see the details. However below tells the story of where you were, perspective with the trees in a swamp, and provides some drama with the swimming Alligator.
On this morning there were thick clouds. That light softens everything and pushes the colors.
Roseate Spoonbills with an American Alligator.
