A Stork with a sense of style, who knew đ.
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Posing, Wood Stork
Category Archives: Stork
Gnarly Oak, Gnarly Head
I shouldnât be surprised at how many Wood Storks we find lately. Many rookeries have attracted the Storks and more young are hatched than ever.
Just 10 years ago they were an endangered species.
Wood Stork In A Swamp Pond
This was a surprise. The swamp here is narrow and long. The far end backs up to a rice field and Ashley River. However the Stork was on the other end, not all that far from the main area of Magnolia Plantation. Not a place you see big Storks.
It was early and few people were around, but he was leaving and heading toward the marsh. But he was leisurely walking, grabbing Crayfish, and not in a big hurry.
Great for me, I could photograph him easily from the other side of the water.
Stork Portrait
This may have been the easiest Wood Stork portrait Iâve taken. Several times he tilted his head for a different angle, better light.
I probably owe him a fee.
Watching A Wood Stork
Wood Storks seem to have shifted from the big marshes to being around the rivers and inlets. Last place I would have looked, however we found them while wandering locally.
This bird was one of several in the big oaks along the Cooper River cemetery area in Charleston.
Quiet Wood Stork
Walking along a little distance behind Ellen I noticed she was shooting something, and from different angles. It looked interesting, and was.
A Wood Stork was sitting just over head from where she was standing. He did his best to ignore her, and now me.
This was a great opportunity, Storks rarely are this close, and if they are certainly not this calm about it.
Resurrection Fern, A Stork
A Wood Stork standing on a large Live Oak branch that is covered in Resurrection Fern.
For me the fern is the best part of this photograph. Itâs hard to get a shot of the plant with any context, or perspective.
The Resurrection Fern grows along the branches of large trees, similar to Spanish Moss. The plant will turn brown, look dead when there is little water. However, after a rain or wet day it springs to life in various bright green colors.
The fern is âresurrectedâ with each rain fall. Just another unique plant that grows in the swamps and marshes of the Lowcountry.
Curious Wood Stork
A few hours ago we walked around the old cemeteries. We had a late start and I expected little.
We did much better than expected from a bird point of view. Wood Storks sat in the big oaks, comfortable, and close.
They watched us as we watched them. They never did move all that far either. A good chance they are still right there sleeping.
Wood Stork, Charleston, South Carolina.