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4-8-10 Wakodahatchee Wetlands. Mom and Dad have made it tough to see in the nest. To nice white eggs were being rotated and tended to.
Being a regular visitor to Potteric Carr, I felt that I should include an image of one of our most iconic visitors
American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)
25 April 2009. Village Creek Drying Beds.
Arlington, Texas. Tarrant County.
Nikon D2H. Nikkor 400mm f3.5 ED-IF + TC-301 teleconverter.
(800mm) f3.5 @ 1/640 sec. ISO 400.
Whitewater Draw WA | Cochise County, AZ | 07 JAN 2012 | Rarity present since NOV 2011 | azbirdbrain.blogspot.com
Oddly, herons are no longer in Ciconiiformes but are now placed in Pelicaniformes.
South Padre Island, TX
August 2011
The Bittern from the previous photo voices its displeasure, likely at a woman yelling on her phone....on a nature boardwalk.
Shot with Nikon 600mm f/5.6 ED-IF AI-s
This is an elusive and shy bittern at 38 cm in size. Possessing a short neck and longish bill, the male is uniformly cinnamon above and buff below. It has yellowish eyes with minute facial skin and the eyes turn red at breeding time. The female is similar but her back and crown are brown, and the juvenile is like the female but heavily streaked brown below.
American Bittern
Sweetwater Wetlands Park
Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida
03/13/2016
David W Foster
Down near the front of the ide now... Please see Suffolk April 2014 album. www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/sets/72157644325620984/
FIELD MARKS-mottled brown upperparts and brownish neck streaks.contrasting dark flight feathers are conspicuos in flight;note also that wings are longer, narrower, and more pointed, not rounded as in night- heron,-juvenile lacks neck patches. when alarmed,freezes with bill pointing up,or flushes with rapid wingbeats.
It's hard to see it from these photos, but this guy's camouflage is really impressive. The brown and white stripes look just like the grass he was standing in, and he didn't move more than four inches the entire time I was watching him.