August Birds

On a hot August Saturday morning, I didn’t expect to get more than a couple of bird photos. We were so surprised to see so many birds along Wildlife Drive. So many, in fact, it has taken a couple of days to get through all of them. I cut it down to around 45 photos. Yikes!

The Great Blue Heron has always been one of my favorites.

Snooze time . . .

We’ve seen several Little Blue Herons this year, not only in their white phase, but also in the changing-to-blue phase. I don’t know if I am getting better at recognizing them or if it’s just a good year for them. The one below is in its white phase.

The Yellow-Crowned Night Heron below was making a lot of noise to get my attention, then posed for me.

The Little Blue Heron below has lost most of its white.

When you are a beautiful Tri-Colored Heron, but surrounded by even more beauty . . .

Most of the Roseate Spoonbills were tucked in and didn’t appear to plan on flying anytime soon. Then, one started pacing around and soon took off.

I’d never seen a Green Heron out in the open on the sand bar, instead of in the trees. The photos are a bit grainy, but I didn’t want to stop to change my camera settings and possibly miss getting photos of it.

We came around a bend in the drive and were again treated to a gathering of white birds. And, again, I took far too many photos! But, how can a person not do so, when getting to see a feeding frenzy?

When you want to be really big and bad, but everyone is laughing at your bad hair day, so you stomp off.

And then you get your mojo back . . . Oh, yeah!

Throwing one back!

Every eye on the prize.

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Thank you for looking at my photos.