Same Great Egret as yesterday's post, this time with a rat. The rat didn't end up getting eaten, whether it was too large or wasn't fresh (I hadn't seen it struggling so it may have been already dead when the egret found it) or some other reason; the egret ended up spitting it out.
A Great Egret (Ardea alba) photographed at Borneo Tropical Rainforest Resort while I was on a boat ride. This shot was featured in my last vlog Episode 4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMzPahGnwM).
Post-holocaust ...
The stark
... post nuclear
holocaust ...
... setting
in this image ...
... and the last
one standing
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Great Egret
Ardea alba
Keoladeo National Park
Bharatpur
Rajasthan
India
17 February 2020
The great egret goes through an elaborate and beautiful mating display in Spring. Picking out a nesting site, they will fan out the long aigrettes on their back like a peacock, then raise their neck up high, then snapping the head and neck backdown low. The yellow lore around the eye turns a...
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