Reflecting pool in a formal garden.
Middleton Place, South Carolina.
Formal Garden
Tag Archives: Bird Photography
Plenty Of Pink
Two photographs taken of a Spoonbill joining a flock.
There were three flocks on this long open marsh. Basically one on each end with the third in the middle. Birds flew back and forth between the different groups.
I captured many small sequences of Spoonbill flights that morning while walking along a dike.
ACE Basin, South Carolina.
Now She Is Really Mad
After being driven away a few times the young fool came back for more. (if you have not seen the previous articles links are included at the end).
The nesting female is the Heron in the back of this shot. It’s taken from a different angle. You can see her standing to confront the new comer…again.
This time she must have hurt more than his feelings. He backed up quick and bailed out into the air. The female was still following him.
Birds show expression with wings, posturing, and feathers. Above everything says this is one very angry Great Blue.
It’s obvious she has had enough of the fool. The uninvited male kept flying this time. I watched him move to the far end of the rookery and land in a large island.
There has been more confrontations, different nests and trees, it may or may not have been the fool. But this happens all the time.
Links;
The first encounter… Â click here.
The second encounter… click here
Low And Close, Egret
Not the best weather but they don’t care so we go out too, well not always.
This Great Egret jumped up from the reeds surprising me. I did manage a few shots.
Young Night Heron Posing
Not the usual shy response, like leaving right away.
Black-crowned Night Heron.
Still a juvenile though he looks to be close to adult changes. His eye color is getting that vivid red.
Felt Eyes On Me
Taken from a foot bridge in an old cemetery. I had been there for a long time before I spotted this Black-crowned Night Heron.
He was tucked into a Live Oak filled with Spanish Moss. If you weren’t in the right spot he was invisible. But he obviously could see me.
Pelican Passing By
These Pelicans moved past me as they headed towards the far side of this marsh. It’s a far distance and surprising they just didn’t fly over.
These were just the first small group to swim there too. Ultimately there had to have been 100+ on that side. Most swam there from my area. Hey, it worked for me. Many of them passed by my spots.
ACE Basin, South Carolina
Unwelcome Visitor, Again
An ongoing story here. In this rookery a new comer has been trying to ‘skip the hard work’ part. He had been landing on nests, getting aggressive with females, and over all causing trouble.
In this series I captured him (on the right) invading a nest site, again.
At first the female sat back, maybe intimidated by the male. But this being her nest she confronted him.
Things got louder and it became an actual fight not just posturing.
At the end here you can see she has pushed him back and off the nest itself.
Most of the times confrontations are all noise. But being predators sometimes it quickly turns and if one does not back down (like above) it’s not pretty.