PHOTOGRAPHY
by Marsha J. Perlman
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Osprey—I was biking around a corner and saw this osprey on top of a fence
with its head down and eating flesh from a fish. I stopped. It looked at me.
The wind came from behind him and I snapped this photo.
Alligator is often seen near birds' nests where it feeds on baby birds that fall out when learning to fly. |
Wood Stork, large and heavy, wades in shallow water with head down and partly open bill in the water. Can locate prey by touch or sight, then snaps bill shut. |
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Brown Pelican with heavy cover nearby - flies low in single file and plunges headlong into the water for fish. |
Yellow-crowned Night Heron is solitary and secretive near shallow water with heavy cover nearby. |
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Roseate Spoonbill walks forward slowly while swinging its head in the water from side to side and sifting the muck for small fish and beetles with its wide flat bill. |
Snowy Egret is known by its yellow feet, often referred to as golden slippers. Slaughtered for its hat plumes in the 19th century but now protected. |
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Ibis has a decurved beak for fishing. |
This Ibis is cracking and eating a freshly caught crab. |
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Blue Heron — When a fish swims by it runs and attacks |
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