waves – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Friday Photos – White Morph Reddish Egret

By Mia McPherson|2020-01-25T05:28:08-06:00July 8th, 2011|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Humor, Reddish Egrets|Tags: bird ID, dancer, dancing, egret, egrets, Egretta rufescens, Gulf of Mexico, hunting, Reddish Egret, shoreline, wading birds, waves, white morph|

Reddish Egrets seem to be natural born "Dancers" when they are hunting for prey, they twirl, spin, piroquette and dip.

Reddish Egret, Laughing and Ring-billed Gulls

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-28T11:49:02-05:00January 17th, 2011|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Laughing Gulls, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets, Ring-billed Gulls|Tags: adult, bait fish, baitfish, beach, coast, coastal, egret, egrets, Egretta rufescens, feeding frenzy, fish, Gulf of Mexico, gull, gulls, Hurricane Ike, Larus delawarensis, Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, Reddish Egret, Ring-billed Gull, water, waves|

There were quite a few Laughing Gulls on and near the shoreline, a few Ring-billed Gulls and two Reddish Egrets hunting on the beach that day.

Tricolored Herons

By Mia McPherson|2016-12-07T12:15:18-06:00October 14th, 2010|Categories: Birds, Florida, Tricolored Herons|Tags: adult, bird photographer, bird photography, birding, birds, Egretta tricolor, Fort De Soto County Park, heron, herons, hunting, stalking, Tricolored Heron, wading bird, wading birds, waves|

Another one of my favorite wading birds is the Tricolored Heron, a bird that used to be called the Louisiana Heron. It can be found in estuaries along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, in inland freshwater marshes in Florida.