Bird ID Challenge

largelylivin

Okay, get out your books: they probably won't help!

Photographed in central New Jersey near coast, but a wide spred species.

This is a 1Mpixel crop from a 14Mpix camera so no critiques please.

I wish I had a longer lens on.

Maestro

Cattle egret chick

Darren Troy C

Yep....either a "Great" or "Cattle" chick. I'm leaning towards "Great".

Come on, make it a little tougher.

largelylivin

Here's more clues
close, but no cigar. Obviolusly, you aren't as stumped as I was. Here's one from the same day and one from a week later. The last one is the funiest bird photo that I've ever taken.

Maestro

Green heron chicks?

jwear

my first guess was a greenie

largelylivin

Maestro wrote:

Green heron chicks?

Yep. From chasing them around all summer I figured out that they had two broods this summer: this is the second brood. I can't tell how many were in the first since they all look the same. The one I put up for critique was from the spring brood.

Green Herons are the most secretive birds that I've come up against and are especially well camoflaged.

Cato

Maestro wrote:

Green heron chicks?

Gotta be honest - when I fist saw this, I thought you had typed "green heroin chicks"...