This should hold me over until lunch - Little Blue Heron Juvenile
This juvenile Little blue heron was having no troubles finding food along this stretch of beach in Florida.
Little Blue Herons may gain a survival advantage by wearing white during their first year of life. Immature birds are likelier than their blue elders to be tolerated by Snowy Egrets—and in the egrets’ company, they catch more fish. Mingling in mixed-species flocks of white herons, immature Little Blue Herons probably also acquire extra protection against predators.
-Egretta caerulea
This should hold me over until lunch - Little Blue Heron Juvenile
This juvenile Little blue heron was having no troubles finding food along this stretch of beach in Florida.
Little Blue Herons may gain a survival advantage by wearing white during their first year of life. Immature birds are likelier than their blue elders to be tolerated by Snowy Egrets—and in the egrets’ company, they catch more fish. Mingling in mixed-species flocks of white herons, immature Little Blue Herons probably also acquire extra protection against predators.
-Egretta caerulea