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for Macro Monday # Corner
These are the corners of three rectangular plates piled up in the sunlight.
Doing a spot of early morning fishing near Fort Myers, Florida.
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Tri-colored heron providing another photographic opportunity.
This heron could fly above the water and capture fish with its head backwards or to the side and swallow them in the air - acrobatic.
I'm in the process of posting some other photos from this series to the comments.
All birds of a species do nothing have the same appearance. Some are particularly handsome. I liked this Tricolored Heron enough to take a portrait.
The Tricolored Heron, formerly known as the Louisiana Heron, is a species of Heron that is native to coastal parts of America. In late March the Tricolored Heron start arriving at the Wading Bird Rookery in Saint Augustine, Florida for mating season.
Tri-Colored Heron
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Nesting season at St Andrews State Park - Panama City Beach, Florida
The tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor), formerly known in North America as the Louisiana heron, is a small heron. It is a resident breeder from the Gulf states of the United States and northern Mexico south through Central America and the Caribbean to central Brazil and Peru. There is some post-breeding dispersal to well north of the nesting range.
Tricolored heron's breeding habitat is sub-tropical swamps. It nests in colonies, often with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs. In each clutch, 3–7 eggs are typically laid.
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Tri Color Heron
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The tricolored heron is a small species of heron that is native to coastal parts of the Americas. In the Atlantic region it ranges from northeastern United States, south along the coast, through the Mexican Gulf and the Caribbean, to northern South America as far south as Brazil. In the Pacific region it ranges from Peru to California, but it is only a non-breeding visitor to the far north.
Tricolored herons breed in swamps and other coastal habitats. It nests in colonies, often with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs. In each clutch, 3–7 eggs are typically laid.
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This is a bird we have in great abundance in out wetlands but never saw this type of behavior before. He wasn't defending his territory because there wasn't anything around him to defend against. Anyway have a great day and thank you all for stopping by.
Despite some reported local declines, still very common in parts of southeast, and has expanded range northward during the 20th century. In recent decades has nested at many new localities farther north and inland.
FamilyHerons, Egrets, Bitterns
Habitat is Marshes, swamps, streams, shores. Mainly in waters of coastal lowlands. In breeding season usually near salt water, on shallow, sheltered estuaries and bays, tidal marshes, mangrove swamps. Also locally inland around freshwater marshes, lakes, rivers. Nests in colonies in trees, mangroves, or scrub near water.
Forages in shallow water by standing still and waiting for prey to approach, or by walking very slowly; sometimes more active, stirring bottom sediments with one foot, or dashing in pursuit of schools of fish. Solitary in foraging, driving away others from small "feeding territory."
Source Audubon Field Guide