A Black-necked Stilt showing off it’s long legs like a model during fashion week. It’s walking the mud runway modeling this season’s latest feathers.
On another note, you don’t always get to see their feet, so it’s cool to get a shot like this.
I love American Avocets; they are such beautiful birds. Their heads are bright spots of color amongst the dull greenish-gray of the swampy areas where they hang out.
The day I took this it was really cloudy so the color is pretty muted compared to what they normally look like.
A Marbled Godwit looking for dinner in gross water in a lagoon inlet. Reminds me of people hunting crawdads when I was a kid. I never really liked anything anything that would be in water this gross. Who knows what you are eating?!?
A Marbled Godwit slurping up a quick bite in the evening sunlight.
You can’t see it, but this is right under a train bridge and behind an office parking lot. I couldn’t help feel bad for the poor birds trying to fish in this gross water under moving trains. Makes me feel bad that our actions make their lives harder.
Life finds a way.
– Jurassic Park
A Marbled Godwit in Carlsbad.
Their eyes are freaking me out!
Greater Flamingos the San Diego Safari Park.
Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.
-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Greater Flamingos at the San Diego Safari Park.
The feet!
I was at the San Diego Safari Park last week and caught these flamingos doing their fancy mating dance…. which basically looks like a group of flamingos crammed together about to get onto a crowded subway train.
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