While enjoying Birdie's posts about this lovely species, I remembered that I had some shots of one doing its "dance."
I haven't tracked those down yet, but I came across this one... so, here it is .
Charlie Shugart 2012
Dec 05, 2012 at 02:09 PM
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Thanks, Tom.
Alas- one of the major themes of my life to this point has been "When I grow up, I'm going to get organized."
Fibber McGee and his infamous closet have nothing on my 50,000 images (mostly slides) in MY closet . They are mostly in little yellow boxes. Ah, but WHICH box has the dancers?
Charlie
Fantastic Charlie !!!! Can't wait to see the dancing ones. I am so envious . I hiked out with my 500mm yesterday through the sand and water for over 2 miles trying to find the egret. I found him but he was not hunting, only standing So today, I am recovering from my trek with the heavy lens.
Charlie, your slides have really held the test of time.
Marvelous image...but I was wondering about the bird's odd name. Why "reddish" and not red or kinda red or somewhat red or almost red or not pink but not red either.
I'm not sure I've ever heard of a bird name that hedged like this one.
Is there a bluish heron, almost bald eagle...
Eric
Thanks guys and doll ().
Sorry, Morris- it took three bean burritos to get THOSE bubbles, and then I ran out of gas (Okay- dumb joke... but original ).
I feel your pain, Birdie (not really ). But I had to expend energy for this shot, too. As I was driving through one of Florida's many refuges (where the birdies are accustomed to people's close presence), I had to stop my car, open the door and walk almost 23 feet for this image. The life of a wildlife photographer is a difficult one indeed .
Eric- I'm the worst person to ask about bird ID. I thought my bird here was a red-neck southern (sorry about the redundancy ) egret. Then everyone called Birdie's birdie a "reddish" egret. How can I argue with everyone?
Charlie
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So today, I am recovering from my trek with the heavy lens.