This Bird is a Limpkin, Retention Pond, Pinellas County, Florida

I took a walk around the neighborhood to see if there things that I had missed recently. Sometimes, I get too set in my ways that I miss some obvious photographic opportunities !

Here is some wildlife that I often miss because I'm too much in a hurry that I miss the Trees in the Forest.

 

So much for philosophy ! I'm certainly not a philosopher !

 

Here's a lone Bird searching for it's Breakfast near one of the many Retention Ponds that Florida is known for !

 

With three Bird Books, I still cannot positively identify this Bird !

I think it might br either a Heron or a Egret, however someone else commented that it was a Limpkin. I'm Confused !

 

The consensuses, is that the Bird is a Limpkin !

 

Both Gerald Wayne Prout and Buckeye have identified the Bird as a Limpkin !

Done