The back side of this island is covered in white birds. There are all shapes and sizes here, flapping and bouncing around.
Taking a wide shot never seems to do the scene justice. Grabbing an image, center of the action, and cropping closer at least gives the view of the chaos and interaction of the birds.
Best viewed large.
A Black-crowned Night Heron set on a long branch of a swamp tree. Behind him in the wood line are multiple nests. It’s like a small enclave close to, but away from, all the swirling Egrets.
Typically Night Herons are one of the last wading birds to mate each year. I have seen a few young ones around, so this years season is probably coming to an end.
Well, that’s what it looked like at the time. He never did anything.
But I got a decent photograph.
From the angle I shot here it looks like the Ibis are all lined up, in a que, waiting their turn.
What makes it funny is the bird first in line has his head up side down digging in the swamp. The others are casually standing in line 😆.
I’m thinking noonish, heavy tree canopy, and glare.
The Ibis was looking at me like ‘what are you doing here?’
I had no answer. It was hot, humid, and in a few minutes I was heading out to an air conditioned car!
I probably should have paid more attention to what these were before they were these. At the least look through older images.
Even the wasp were keeping their distance.
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Photographed with the OM-1 (1), OM 12-200.
A quick shot of a Tricolor down in a deep cut. We spotted him as we were leaving a large ACE Basin marsh.
The cut was aside a single land dike road. All I could do was try to lean out the car window. Almost straight down I grabbed a single shot, in a horrid position LOL.
One shot was enough, we are in ‘heat season’ and it was time to go.
This is one of my favorite subjects to photograph, especially when showing green. A Carolina Anole, aka American Anole.
They don’t have color ranges like a chameleon, it’s green and brown, that’s all.
For the most part they are in subtropical US, 4 or 5 southern states. There are other similar species in the Caribbean.
I found this one out back in an arbor. Plants and bushes for insects and places to hide. The Anole only eat live insects, they must see them move before eating.
Photographed with an OM-1 (1), OM 12-200.
