I’m thinking noonish, heavy tree canopy, and glare.
The Ibis was looking at me like ‘what are you doing here?’
I had no answer. It was hot, humid, and in a few minutes I was heading out to an air conditioned car!
Noon, Dark Swamp, White Ibis
Category Archives: Birds
Tricolored Heron, High Tide Salt Marsh
A quick shot of a Tricolor down in a deep cut. We spotted him as we were leaving a large ACE Basin marsh.
The cut was aside a single land dike road. All I could do was try to lean out the car window. Almost straight down I grabbed a single shot, in a horrid position LOL.
One shot was enough, we are in ‘heat season’ and it was time to go.
Gallinule Chicks
The infamous Common Gallinule chicks. They can be called the ‘ugliest’ of baby birds. To be fair they grow out of that phase quickly. These young birds below are the next stage in their growth and have grown away from the ‘ugly’. A week earlier and they are a sight to behold.
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Gallinule Chicks
Gallinule Chicks
Gallinule Chicks
Gallinule Chicks
Snowy Egret Feeding Young
When the wading bird chicks reach this age feeding them is brutal. The young fight for the food, adults can actually be hurt. When they get just a little older the adults will bring whole food and quickly drop it at the nest.
It’s hard to photograph this, non stop movement. If I can get focus on the adult that should be enough for a few decent shots. After that I ‘push the button’. There’s a lot of images to dig through LOL.
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Snowy Egret Feeding Young
Snowy Egret Feeding Young
Snowy Egret Feeding Young
Landing In The Ibis, Great Egret
This Great Egret dropped down in the middle of some nesting White Ibis. While that’s usually not a good idea, and a few Ibis did take exception, there is little room here. This is a dense rookery with most groups of birds mingling with various species. There are thousands of birds in the Port Royal rookeries.
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Landing In The Ibis
Landing In The Ibis
Landing In The Ibis
Landing In The Ibis
Great Top Knot, Baby Tricolor
Out learning the world around him, and I was lucky enough to catch this moment.
Wide eyed, probably can’t fly very well, he was out ‘branching’. Basically climbing through the branches.
Best viewed large.
Wood Stork
Adult Wood Stork along the edge of the rookery swamp at Port Royal.
This spot is half way between the rookery nesting area and the wood line. Storks gather sticks in these woods so they fly right over here all day. If they get thirsty, want a rest, whatever, they drop down here. I can stand maybe 25 yards, 22 meters, away from them.
A nice place to photograph them (except it’s out in the southern sun).
Mom And Junior, Night Herons
So many times there are things happening in a photograph we don’t notice at the time we were shooting. This is one.
Below was my first shot. It was at a distance, water separated us from the main rookery island. This was the back side with many nests and dark shadowed areas.
I didn’t see the nest in the shadows. In the nest was a young Black-crowned Night Heron.
A little while later I passed by again, taking the same shot, never know how good the first was.
Look close behind the adult and you will see the chick came out and was sitting off to the side. Here the young one looks a lot bigger.
Both were taken at a distance using the OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 II.