Tag Archives: Colorful

Tricolored Heron, Tidal Canal

A Tricolored Heron photographed during low tide in a canal. These are natural canals that run though marshes and along side dikes.

Tricolored Heron, Tidal Canal - click to enlarge
Tricolored Heron, Tidal Canal – click to enlarge
Tricolored Heron, Tidal Canal - click to enlarge
Tricolored Heron, Tidal Canal – click to enlarge

The water can get deep here and even though it’s it’s brackish Alligators are all around here. Dolphins have come up these canals and Boar move through the reeds, neither are that common right here though.

Tricolored Heron, Tidal Canal - click to enlarge
Tricolored Heron, Tidal Canal – click to enlarge

This is mostly the home of the large wading birds.

The Blue Sky, Stork

This is a sample of the great blue skies we get along the coast here, South Carolina Lowcountry. At times it can be so blue as to appear fake, made in Photoshop (and I have been asked).

The Blue Sky, Stork - click to enlarge
The Blue Sky, Stork – click to enlarge

Having the clouds is critical with sky like this. Everything can be lost, or over powered, by blue.

The Blue Sky, Stork - click to enlarge
The Blue Sky, Stork – click to enlarge

Not this morning. Added to clouds was a big Wood Stock in a lazy pass.

Can’t beat that combination.