Can you beleve this Tri-Colored Heron?

IraRunyanIraRunyan Registered Users Posts: 1,013 Major grins
edited October 14, 2008 in Wildlife
Not the typical Tri-Colored shots I have taken in the past..............
The last three looks like he thinks that he is a duck.

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  • m_granitem_granite Registered Users Posts: 146 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2008
    Lovely colors :D
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  • SunGloSunGlo Registered Users Posts: 382 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2008
    IraRunyan wrote:
    Not the typical Tri-Colored shots I have taken in the past..............
    The last three looks like he thinks that he is a duck.

    Great shots Ira.

    I witnessed the same "ducking" behavior the other day with a white ibis. It would partially submerge and stay there for a while. I had never seen an ibis behave in that manner before. I don't know what the temperatures been like on the east coast, but it's been very hot on the west coast (Florida) and I'm wondering if that has something to do with this oddity?

    Phil

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  • IraRunyanIraRunyan Registered Users Posts: 1,013 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2008
    In this case, it's more than that. This Tri-Colored Heron is actually swimming, and feeding on minnows at the surface of the water. I have never seen one swimming before!
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  • CatoCato Registered Users Posts: 287 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2008
    Absolutely wonderful shots!!! It's a neat looking bird, too.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2008
    Very nice ste Ira. They have 3-4 distinct feeding patterns and I've seen this one before but not too often.
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