Category: Birds
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Tri Colored Heron Tromping Marsh Grass
This tri-colored heron is moving fast stepping over the Spartina Marsh grass and through the pluff mud. A tri-color with a mission! It does a shuffle russle with the feathers and a nice wing stretch and itch.
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Adult White Ibis In Pluff Mud
Adult white Ibis have red / pink legs and bills. Their bill turns downward. They usually hang out in big flocks but every once in a while there will be a solitary feeder. They are wading birds and move fast looking for food in the water or by plunging their bill into the mud. This…
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Juvenile Yellow Crowned Night Heron
This is a juvenile yellow crowned night heron out on his own for the first time. This is one of four juveniles from a family that frequents our dock regularly. He’s on the dock looking for Fiddler Crabs to eat, but he just needs to look behind him!
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Itchy Great Blue Heron
This is a great blue heron sitting on top of a perch of a rusty dock shed. He’s itching and scratching and preening and observing his/her kingdom. The rusty pink shoulders of a great blue heron are completely normal. They are not injuries but just Mother Natures and God’s great dynamic work!
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