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Great Egrets

The sequence #10 to #16 of this gallery shows a Great Egret displaying on a nest. During the breeding season, a Great Egret's bill becomes orange-yellow and the lores(the skin at the base of the bill) becomes lime-green. When the egret displays on the nest, it spends it's time moving rhythmically from side-to-side, preening it's feathers and periodically moving it's head up and backwards in stages until it's neck is extended almost horizontally over it's back.
Great Egret (Ardea alba)
Great Egret
(Ardea alba)		 Great Egret (Ardea alba)
Great Egret
(Ardea alba)		 Great and Snowy Egrets patiently waiting for fish to be driven to the shoreline by cormorants.
Great and Snowy Egrets patiently waiting for fish to be driven to the shoreline by cormorants.		 Great Egret
Great Egret		 Great Egret stalking a crayfish
Great Egret stalking a crayfish
Going for the crayfish
Going for the crayfish		 Success!!
Success!!		 Down the hatch!
Down the hatch!		 Great Egret and It's Shadow
Great Egret and It's Shadow		 Great Egret
Great Egret
The Chase
The Chase		 The Chased
The Chased		 Fish grabbed from shallows
Fish grabbed from shallows		 Positioning fish to swallow
Positioning fish to swallow		 Great Egret at early stages of nest building(Stick #4)
Great Egret at early stages of nest building(Stick #4)
Great Egret - Close crop of adjusting stick #4
Great Egret - Close crop of adjusting stick #4		 Great Egret resting after arranging stick #4
Great Egret resting after arranging stick #4		 Displaying on the nest-#1
Displaying on the nest-#1		 Displaying on the nest-#2
Displaying on the nest-#2		 Displaying on the nest-#3
Displaying on the nest-#3
Displaying on the nest-#4
Displaying on the nest-#4		 Great Egret (closely watching the photographer)
Great Egret (closely watching the photographer)		 Great Egret
Great Egret		 Great Egret
Great Egret		 Great Egret standing on nest
Great Egret standing on nest

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Guest 05-Mar-2009 07:28
Well done! great to see the Egrets in flight.
Dennis Ancinec22-May-2008 01:11
I like how you arranged the shots to tell a story. All well captured.
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