cattle egret

Cattle Egret. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Héron garde-bœufs - Bubulcus ibis - Cattle Egret

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis ibis) foraging with White-faced Herefords. The yellow flowers are buttercups (Ranunculus sp.).

Cattle Egret (Area ibis ibis) Transitioning into breeding plumage.

These normally drab looking egrets, all white with dull yellow bill and mostly black legs, become quite colorful during breeding season - turning on the yellow-orange feathers on the back and head, the legs can turn reddish, and the bill takes on a rainbow of yellow, orange, pink, and purple.

Cattle Egret. Image re-sized, cropped, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Cattle Egret

Cattle Egret. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened.

Eastern Cattle Egret in flight

Gathering nesting material

Gathering best material

Eastern Cattle Egret in courtship colours

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Eastern Cattle Egret in courtship flush

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Thank you everyone for your lovely comments on my images of a seascape and of kentish plovers. I am still sorting out the photos I took in the summer with my bridge camera. While walking along a coastal path just outside my home town, I saw several cattle egrets among cattle in a field.

One of the birds that you can't tell the sex by looking at it.

Camargue horses

Have a great weekend all...Stay safe.

well lockdown is not that bad, gave a chance to practice with flight shot on European bee eaters flying by my house, so when i went to that garden again, i could get a shot like this. hope you like it. and Happy Eid.

in the nearby public garden on the water front, many of these are walking freely as no humans since 6 weeks. tomorrow i will go again hoping to see the glossy ibis. hope you like it.

Have a great weekend y'all...Stay safe.