wading birds

At one of my favorite lakes for photographing Osprey, the Osprey weren't cooperating but this Tri-colored Heron was fishing right in front of me not paying me a bit of mind!

A couple shots of a Reddish Egret. The subject of my latest post (https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=393781) of birds we see here in Florida.

A couple shots of a Reddish Egret. The subject of my latest post (https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=393781) of birds we see here in Florida.

There were quite a few but too spread out so here is a couple

Little egrets fighting over territory

I was pleased to find this elegant wader on a rapidly drying out pool, adjacent the main road past the Kalloni Salt Pans.

They have the huge Exe estuary reserve and have to fight over one little spot

Black-crowned Night Heron

The Black-crowed Night Heron is a wader that can be found in much of the world. They nest by the hundreds in the marsh where this was taken.

During warmer weather I found this Great Egret all ruffled up and ready to strike. I was just about too close for the picture.

Maybe Anna Pavlova in Swan Lake? I was lucky enough to catch this Great Egret as it made a frilly take off from a marsh.

Great Egret flying at sunrise.

evening roost of Snowy Egrets, White Ibis and Tricolored Herons at Ormond Beach, Florida, USA

Tricolored Heron at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, USA.

This picture were taken during my recent trip to the Isle of Mull on the shore of Loch Scridian. They are of a Common Sandpiper in a submissive pose. This behavior occurs when another common sandpiper comes on the scene, The bird bows and lifts it wings submitting to the incoming bird. This...

Fast moving little guys make them hard to catch. Always looking for minnows. This particular time the tide was just comming in and there was a feeding frenzy of Egrets, pelicans and Herons diving down for minnows. I've never seen anything like it, there were litterally hundreds of them in one...

Two Cranes under attack by a Red-winged Blackbird, presumably for feeding too near its nest, were driven away to the higher ground behind them.

Pair of Sand Hill Cranes making noise

This beauty is another one of those I have been posting from the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year.

White Ibis, Tricolored Heron, Marbled Godwit, assorted peeps

It was a misty October morning when I photographed this great blue heron is slowly wading through a golf course water trap/pond until it can find its breakfast.