{"id":9788,"date":"2013-10-13T05:09:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=9788"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:35:26","slug":"white-morph-reddish-egret-on-the-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/10\/13\/white-morph-reddish-egret-on-the-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"White Morph Reddish Egret On The Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhiteWhite morph Reddish Egret on the hunt – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/1250, ISO 250, Nikkor 70-300mm VR at 250mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday I featured a Snowy Egret<\/a><\/span> and today I am presenting another big white wading bird; the white morph of a Reddish Egret.<\/p>\n

Both the white and dark morphs of Reddish Egrets are great fun to watch as they hunt because they dance, twirl, whirl, and stumble along like a “drunken sailor”.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0Reddish Egret in breeding plumage sure presented a funny pose and didn’t seem to care a bit that I that was sitting on the shoreline photographing it when it rushed towards me.<\/p>\n

I could almost see the newspaper headline “Bird photographer in a hit and run accident with a large white wading bird, whose feathers got ruffled?”<\/p>\n

Fortunately I\u00a0must not have looked like\u00a0food and the egret didn’t spear me with its sharp bicolored bill.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Reddish Egret photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both the white and dark morphs of Reddish Egrets are great fun to watch as they hunt because they dance, twirl, whirl and stumble along like a “drunken sailor”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,25,704,157],"tags":[4004,4053,2369,743,351,4185,4077,3970,160,313,3996,4186],"class_list":["post-9788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-reddish-egret","tag-adult","tag-breeding-plumage","tag-drunken-sailor","tag-egret","tag-egrets","tag-egretta-rufescens","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-hunting","tag-reddish-egret","tag-wading-birds","tag-water","tag-white-morph"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t