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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
(12,462 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
(24,653 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
(16,702 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,702 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)You should frame it.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)hanging in my breakfast nook (turned office/sewing room). Tempted to replace them with this.
Ligyron
(7,622 posts)That was a good catch.
Karadeniz
(22,477 posts)TNNurse
(6,926 posts)CrispyQ
(36,424 posts)Beautiful bird!
Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 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
(7,622 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
(15,534 posts)should be entered in one of DU's photo contests. Stunning.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Got lucky with this one. Took 89 shots on sports mode to get ten keepers.
niyad
(113,104 posts)HAB911
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2naSalit
(86,393 posts)That's amazing! I have never seen one of those! The pictures are amazing!
Thanks for sharing!
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 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
(86,393 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
(22,768 posts)Florida has birds we never see up here in Virginia.
Butterflylady
(3,537 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,534 posts)The last 2 or so are breathtaking.
You have captured magic!
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,560 posts)That bird is impressive - what a colour!!
plcdude
(5,309 posts)Thank you
BarbD
(1,192 posts)barbtries
(28,774 posts)i like your backyard
bullimiami
(13,076 posts)seta1950
(932 posts)Nice backyard 🙂
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)Tanuki
(14,914 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
(6,805 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
(6,576 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
(24,653 posts)Your house location sounds awesome, especially for this area.
mnhtnbb
(31,375 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
(5,730 posts)Thank you so much for sharing them with us! This really made my day.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)Talitha
(6,564 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
(466 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
(25,952 posts)Skittles
(153,122 posts)very impressive pics! What a treat!
PatrickforO
(14,561 posts)Great photos!
Trueblue Texan
(2,420 posts)malaise
(268,730 posts)Thanks
lostnfound
(16,163 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
(90,565 posts)Celerity
(43,159 posts)BainsBane
(53,016 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.