"The reddish egret is a charismatic species ...It's affinity for barren shallow flats and its extremely active foraging behavior make it easily identifiable ..." Cornell BNA. It is like watching a dance to see it hunt.
Catching birds in flight with a good composition is not easy. But watching these huge birds coast through the air is fabulous.
This is not considered a fancy bird, but I love it. The Laughing Gull is cocky and has a perennial smile on its face. On the shores of Florida it hangs out with terns, other gulls and black skimmers. I don't have many pictures of those birds because by the time I reached this fellow I had dropped and broken all of my equipment and also fallen over in a hole on the beach. Maybe that's why he's laughing this time.
