Reddish Egret

Spent a while on Saturday at the footbridge in Phillippe Park. This site is a tidal creek leading from a mangrove swamp into Safety Harbor, the extreme NW end of Tampa Bay.

As the tide began to ebb around 7 pm, we had a feeding frenzy of wading birds. Among them was this reddish egret. It was having a minor confrontation with the a tricolor heron. When it was in the sun, its neck was really an almost startling shade of red. The close crop on the head is a "100% crop" - not resized at all.

C&C welcome.

Dale

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A very photogenic bird and I like the first capture especially with my only nit being the oof ( tricolor neck ?) stick or whatever in the foreground.

I wasn't happy about the OOF TCH head either, but the way those two were jumping around each other I was lucky to get a decent shot of the reddish egret. Thanks for the comment.

Dale