Their white head feathers stand up like a crown when confronting another bird.
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Beautiful as always, thanks!
Their white head feathers stand up like a crown when confronting another bird.
I would consider a ‘treehugger’ to be someone who would protect an inconsequential aspect of nature at great human expense or to avoid any human interference at all, even if it harms nature.
An erosion control option that is cheaper, more attractive and of greater benefit to nature does not fit my definition of ‘treehugger’.
Great SS. Mark for later view when Mrs. RQSR gets home.
That last one is the best of the bunch. Great color, refection and range of texture. I’d probably crop it though so it has a portrait orientation that matches the bird’s elongated stance.
Simply gorgeous. (I’m with you ... LESS CONCRETE!)
Yeah, nothing weird about wanting to protect nature. I call myself a conservationist.
Beautiful photos.
Nice!
I don’t know what that is darting ahead in photo #1 but it looks like dinner for that bird...lol.
Beautiful, Swampy!
I’m with you on the concrete.
Your “experts” sound like the ones around here—building bulkheads to keep the islands in place because “that’s where they’ve always been”. Bull honkey sticks! If that’s so, how come there are tree stumps in the middle of the sound and out in the ocean? Did the trees just get up and walk out there and drown themselves one full moon night? LOL
Sand moves—get over it!
I noticed another change. Tricolor heron legs turn reddish or pink when tricolors reach the breeding stage. The birds in your pictures have yellow legs, but my birds’ legs are not yellow.
I’m not sure any more about the eye color and whether it changes at breeding. The eyes may always be red. Their eyes were very red in all my photos, but my photos were all taken during the breeding stage.
I found that the following site mentioned the leg color change. http://www.outdooralabama.com/watchable-wildlife/what/Birds/herons/th.cfm