Not a very dramatic bird, but is close to the ‘Gallinule’ in habits. So does tend to scurry away at times.
However, these birds travel in decent size flocks, called rafts. A raft of Coots is fun to see since they move in a coordinated flow.
When out we shoot a lot. It’s not unusual for me to have 1,200 shots a day. That does take a lot of time to go through them all. Some folders just get missed.
It would have been a shame if I hadn’t stumbled on this one LOL.
This may be the first full mating dance I have captured this year.
A dance scene is always a high point of the spring season.
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Great Egret mating dance.
Noise and chaos is never far behind a Snowy.
It doesn’t take much to get set one off. However I think our center bird here is looking in the wrong direction.
Snowy Chaos
Circular stairs, 1803.
OM-1 mk2, OM 12-100 f4
In the south we have a description for this.
It’s called ‘A Big Sky’ day.
The Great Egret front and center didn’t hurt much either.
The swamp beginning to wake up.
Soon the spring chaos will erupt again. But for now all was peace and quiet.
I must have been having a ‘bad eye’ day. Blue-winged Teals were everywhere, I shot a gazillion images, hardly any worth keeping.
I liked this one, I di need to clean house on a bunch more though.
