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Related: About this forumI encountered a Roseate Spoonbill in my backyard on Thursday. Working from home has its perks!
I was fortunate to be able to stalk this fellow with my telephoto lens during my lunch hour.
kcoates
(3 posts)Beautiful!
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)reflections.
Oh, and I want a back yard like yours . . .
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Beaks are really cool looking. Have always been fascinated with birds that are colorful and unique your spoonbill is both. Thank you.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)It's actually a retention pond surrounded by suburban houses with .20 acre lots. LOL!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Im glad the Spoonbill doesnt mind the suburbs.
Evolve Dammit
(16,755 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,755 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)You should frame it.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)hanging in my breakfast nook (turned office/sewing room). Tempted to replace them with this.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)That was a good catch.
Karadeniz
(22,563 posts)TNNurse
(6,929 posts)CrispyQ
(36,499 posts)Beautiful bird!
Lonestarblue
(10,050 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)If I were to zoom out, you'd just see the backs of other suburban houses around the pond. Not exactly a wildlife refuge I'm afraid.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)I swear, if it wasn't for those ponds, we'd be underwater. Those and the canals.
procon
(15,805 posts)plain brown sparrows and raucous crows.
llmart
(15,550 posts)should be entered in one of DU's photo contests. Stunning.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Got lucky with this one. Took 89 shots on sports mode to get ten keepers.
niyad
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2naSalit
(86,761 posts)That's amazing! I have never seen one of those! The pictures are amazing!
Thanks for sharing!
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)He/She seems to have taken up residence around the retention pond behind our house a little over a week ago. Went out on a whim with a few minutes to spare before a conference call to see what I could get. My experience is primarily sports and music performance photography. My camera was still set on sports mode, so before I knew it, I had 89 shots of her/him to play with. Very lucky!
2naSalit
(86,761 posts)serendipity there! Beautiful bird. I love bird watching, they are so amazing, all of them. That's not to say I don't love to watch any wildlife, because I do and live in a wildlife rich area for that reason.
Nitram
(22,845 posts)Florida has birds we never see up here in Virginia.
Butterflylady
(3,546 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,680 posts)The last 2 or so are breathtaking.
You have captured magic!
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)That bird is impressive - what a colour!!
plcdude
(5,310 posts)Thank you
BarbD
(1,193 posts)barbtries
(28,810 posts)i like your backyard
bullimiami
(13,101 posts)seta1950
(933 posts)Nice backyard 🙂
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)at the wonderful Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, FL. Love your photos! The bottom one is my favorite of them all.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)Wow!
jaxexpat
(6,843 posts)I had a wild turkey dive bomb into my backyard last week. Walked around talking (that odd, muted, soprano undertone) to itself. She terrorized my min pin, then walked off into the woods like the AWOL guy in "More American Graffiti", poignant like. Not pink, though, surprisingly tall, willowy even.
CaptainTruth
(6,600 posts)You did a great job with the pics!
We have plenty of ibises, osprey, herons (blue & green), anhingas, & I even saw an eagle in my back yard once (he got close to an osprey nest & the osprey forced the eagle down to the ground in my yard, I just happened to see it).
I know what you mean about the 0.2 acre lots, that's my neighborhood too. You'll understand why I jumped on my house when I saw it, it's on a curve in the road so the front yard is narrow but the back yard fans out wide, 0.44 acres total, with a detached workshop & access to the back on a street that dead ends at the canal. I can park at the dead end & move things in/out of my workshop, it's perfect for what I do.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Your house location sounds awesome, especially for this area.
mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)I will have a view of a retention pond from my new house, too. Hoping to see some water birds, eventually.
LOVE the last shot!
ohhellyes
(42 posts)bizarre looking bird.
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)Thank you so much for sharing them with us! This really made my day.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)Talitha
(6,611 posts)Taken by an extremely talented photographer... KUDOS!
Thanks for sharing these with us!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Tyvm for sharing these gorgeous pix!
CCExile
(470 posts)Galveston Bay, and larger flocks on more remote parts of all Texas bays. Once, as a kid in the sixties, I saw a flock that had to be over a thousand on a remote oil lease near the town of Angleton, again near Galveston bay. These days I see the odd one or two, and recently one flock of dozens on St. Charles Bay, but not like the old days.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Thank you for posting!
crickets
(25,982 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)very impressive pics! What a treat!
PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)Great photos!
Trueblue Texan
(2,440 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Thanks
lostnfound
(16,189 posts)Magenta and pink against a blue sky.
Those are my favorites, but too beautiful to be locked in my mind as real. So my spirit bird is a great blue heron.
Seeing a great blue is reassuring and joyful. Swing a Roseate spoonbill is a religious experience that takes your breath away.
Hekate
(90,771 posts)Celerity
(43,484 posts)BainsBane
(53,051 posts)I saw a lot of those when I visited the Aransas Wildlife Refuge on the Texas Gulf Coast. I also saw the state bird of MN, loons, in their winter habitat.