Only a little pushing and shoving here.
Spoonbills are fairly calm birds, but even they don’t share very well.
This time they were well behaved.
Roseate Spoonbills Sharing The Top
Category Archives: Spoonbill
A New Perspective
A place I have seen and photographed hundreds of times. If you visit this web site you too have seen it. (Click here to view a recent shot).
I don’t remember ever taking a photograph of that spot from one of the dikes.
Above was taken as I walked down the side of this marsh, actually it was a remote plantation rice field a few hundred years ago.
The island has a single (and shaky) dead tree. Here it is filled with Roseate Spoonbills and a Great Blue Heron. Another Heron is fishing in the shallows, and what you can’t see is the scores Alligators in the marsh grass.
Scenes like this just reinforce how beautiful the Lowcountry wild lands are.
Loud, Chaotic, Beautiful, And A Rare Sight
Something set them off and they all took to the air at the same time. It was deafening and amazing, there was at least a thousand taking off at the same time.
What makes this even more special are the mix of birds and how not that long ago this might never have happened.
Wood Storks were endangered and almost gone, Roseate Spoonbills would stay in Central / South America, and some Egrets were hunted to almost extinction.
Yet here they were, all together in front of my camera.
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Loud, Chaos, Beautiful – click to enlarge
Spoonbill Arriving
They are not known for a polite landing.
At least no one was pushed off the tree… this time.
Walking With Spoonbills
Taken from a dike, I was able to walk along with them for a while.
They obviously knew I was there but there was just enough distance for them to be comfortable.
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Spoonbill Conversation
I do like this photograph because it shows some interaction with the Spoonbills. They obviously are paying close attention to the photographer.
Spoonbills are loud, but their squawk is not near as shocking as a Great Blue Heron. However, Great Blues don’t travel in flocks either so you don’t hear several at the same time.
I do love the one on the right ‘conversing’ with me.
Spoonbills, Wide Image
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There were many big pink birds here. I shot as wide and close as I could.
Bowl Of Roseate Spoonbills
This may be one of the nicer photographs of a group of Spoonbills taken this year. It can be difficult to get large groups in focus. The fall marsh background colors worked well too.
What I really like is each bird is facing the camera and doing something, well most are.
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