Time for Natural History (bird behavior)
Just a couple things that stood out to me from my images this past week....
In the first three images you can see a disagreement between a Great Egret and a GBH. In the first image you can see the GBH actually step on the head of the Egret while in flight and push the Egret's body into the water. I didn't realize there was such animosity between the species.... Maybe it's just because the low water levels are forcing them to co-exist in a much smaller area and creating a more stressful situation than normal. Whatever it is, you could see the tension and aggression between the two species!
The last image is something I had seen the wading birds do in Florida, but not here. In this image you can see an Egret flying low over the water and without stopping it plucks a fish out of the water! Normally you think of these birds as slow, stealthy hunters but this one was doing a fly by! I don’t know how they can keep flying and stick their head underwater at the same time without crashing!!!
As always, thanks for looking!!!! You can see more pics at my website Long Creek Photography