Wood Stork, Looking To Nest Too

On a Cypress, looking around in a rookery.

Wood Storks prefer an isolated location, with a flock of other Storks to nest.

Wood Stork, Looking To Nest Too
Wood Stork, Looking To Nest Too

Storks will stop where they see other birds building. Check out the neighborhood, and move on. I rarely see them on nests.

Wood Stork, Looking To Nest Too
Wood Stork, Looking To Nest Too

I know of a few Stork rookeries. All are pretty isolated and some protected. That is one of the reason they have made a come back from the brink of extinction.

 

Egret, Collecting For The Nest

These were taken recently on a morning when there was plenty of flight action. Egret nesting to be exact.

Egret, Collecting For The Nest
Egret, Collecting For The Nest

Walking the parameter of the large rookery pond, well dodging direct sunlight, gave me a few different angles as the birds flew past with their ‘collections’.

Egret, Collecting For The Nest
Egret, Collecting For The Nest
Egret, Collecting For The Nest
Egret, Collecting For The Nest

It’s frustrating, but I could show up the next day, at the exact same time and place with no results. When you do get it right this is an amazing show.

Egret, Collecting For The Nest
Egret, Collecting For The Nest

Above an Alligator watched with me.

Random Bonaventure Cemetery

Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah is older than Magnolia in Charleston. Only a few years, but enough to make a difference.

I had always wanted to visit Bonaventure since it’s always compared to Magnolia, and Magnolia was created based on the ideas started in Savannah.

The US civil war changed the path of Magnolia which was damaged and housed federal troops for a period of time. Bonaventure is much more structured and manicured.

Both are special and beautiful.

Random Bonaventure Cemetery
Random Bonaventure Cemetery
Random Bonaventure Cemetery
Random Bonaventure Cemetery
Random Bonaventure Cemetery
Random Bonaventure Cemetery

I think my preference is the unstructured, almost scattered, layout of Magnolia. That said, the wild flowers and long open lanes of Bonaventure are incredible.

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