More Wood Storks from Tuesday

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited July 7, 2005 in Wildlife
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Below a group of wood storks. I read that they stir the fish up with their feet, perhaps that is what they are doing here.

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Those are all of the Wood Stork photos from Tues anyway. I also read that they are summer residents in the Carolinas. I hope I can get back up that bridge.........would prefer to be driven, will see.

ginger
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  • luckydogluckydog Registered Users Posts: 396 Major grins
    edited July 7, 2005
    Excellent shots of a cool bird. How big are they? They look about 4-5 feet tall.
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited July 7, 2005
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    well done, nothing blown here :D
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  • GatorGator Registered Users Posts: 192 Major grins
    edited July 7, 2005
    Great capture of an Endangered species! Check out this site for more info
    http://www.nps.gov/ever/eco/wdstork.htm

    Or do a search on the web. We use the Wood Stork here as an indicator of what is happening in the 'Glades ecosystems.
  • MuskyDudeMuskyDude Registered Users Posts: 1,508 Major grins
    edited July 7, 2005
    Your shots get better and better Ginger, these are excellent!!! thumb.gif




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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited July 7, 2005
    Good shots Ginger. I'm glad to see that you finally got some wood storks.
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited July 7, 2005
    Thanks everyone: ben, gator, lucky dog, Musky Dude and Harry.

    It is nice to know that I can get good shots, given the opportunity, away from heavy tree coverage. I was so excited at the first close woodstork flyover that I just yelled, "WOOOOOOODstoooooooooooork", thought I would scare them, but it didn't, too much noise from the cars probably.

    You know what scared them. the click of the shutter. they would leave immediately. I could scream anything, wouldn't phase them, but the click of a shutter and a white lens.....................a gone bird.

    I must have really hurt myself with some kind of heat stroke or something, though. I was awake more today, but fell asleep when my husband got home, he wanted the computer, and I was on the comfortable couch. That is discouraging. The thought that that walk really is too much for me. We drive over it all the time. I have seen birds, but not like that. I just wanted to get the summer marsh grass colors. Now I know it is a birder's paradise.

    It was really nice of the cop to give me water after I got back down and he checked on me. He came back again to see if I was OK, the first nice cop in years. He was an Isle of Palms cop, I started on the Mt Pleasant side and was on that side when he stopped.

    Anyway, thanks for stopping and commenting. I really like that people are seeing those woodstork shots.

    I read the info re the Wood Storks and the everglades. I hate what man is doing to our environment. The wood storks are making a meager comeback in the Carolinas. But they are only summer residents, that is what I read, so they need the everglades. We all need the everglades............and the rain forests, etc.

    thanks again,
    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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