This was taken two weeks ago in Mission Bay, San Diego. It has the black bill of a Snowy, but the wrong color legs, they are yellow not black. Plus it is too large to be a snowy egret.
dancinec Cream of the Crop  8,035 posts Joined Apr 2005 Location: Carlsbad, California More info | Jan 04, 2006 18:08 | #1 This was taken two weeks ago in Mission Bay, San Diego. It has the black bill of a Snowy, but the wrong color legs, they are yellow not black. Plus it is too large to be a snowy egret. Dennis
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salsataco Senior Member  343 posts Likes: 5 Joined Sep 2005 Location: MA More info | Jan 04, 2006 18:43 | #2 Great shots of a Snowy Egret. "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." ~John Muir
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dancinec THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 8,035 posts Joined Apr 2005 Location: Carlsbad, California More info | salsataco wrote: Great shots of a Snowy Egret. Snowy = black beak / yellow feet Great = yellow beak / black feet My book shows the Snowy with black legs, yellow toes and a black bill. Dennis
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sparker1 Cream of the Crop  29,368 posts Likes: 295 Joined Nov 2004 Location: Sierra Vista, AZ More info | Jan 04, 2006 21:55 | #4 The legs of a snowy can be mixed black/yellow. I have some shots where the fronts of the legs are black, the backs are yellow. But, the feet are yellow. Stan (See my gallery at http://www.pbase.com/sparker1
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dancinec THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 8,035 posts Joined Apr 2005 Location: Carlsbad, California More info | sparker1 wrote: The legs of a snowy can be mixed black/yellow. I have some shots where the fronts of the legs are black, the backs are yellow. But, the feet are yellow. OK, I can accept that, thanks for the help. Dennis
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Leorooster Cream of the Crop  6,749 posts Likes: 2 Joined May 2005 Location: New York More info | Jan 04, 2006 23:40 | #6 Very nice Dennis. And thanks for asking the question. I didn't know what the difference between a snowy and a great. Canon 1DMarkIII
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cfcRebel Cream of the Crop  10,252 posts Joined Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX More info | Jan 05, 2006 10:08 | #7 Don't forget, a juv little blue heron has white body too. I forget what color of their legs/bill is. Fee
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Dimitri_V Cream of the Crop  9,221 posts Joined Nov 2004 Location: Scotland More info | Jan 05, 2006 10:53 | #8  Permanent bandancinec wrote: This was taken two weeks ago in Mission Bay, San Diego. It has the black bill of a Snowy, but the wrong color legs, they are yellow not black. Plus it is too large to be a snowy egret.
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dancinec THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 8,035 posts Joined Apr 2005 Location: Carlsbad, California More info | cfcRebel wrote: Don't forget, a juv little blue heron has white body too. I forget what color of their legs/bill is.  My book shows a mottled brown coloration for a immature Little Blue Heron, but it is about that size and there were Little Blue Herons around. Here is my shot of a snowy egret. Dennis
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) but the 1st shot is a wow one Dennis.