GREAT BLUE HERON

I have enjoyed watching the Great Blue Heron in all of its nature.  It was a thrill to watch this magnificent bird gracefully fly into a tree or shrub and balance itself on top of a limb.  It builds a huge nest high up in a tree using spanish moss and twigs.  It flys in and tends to its babies with a regurgitated lunch! Yum!

LITTLE BLUE HERON

TRI-COLOUR HERON

The beautiful Tri-Colored Heron is a sight to be seen.  Its long yellow legs and red eyes tha

t are very striking.  They have a little tuft of white on top of their head that stands up if they are threatened or excited.  During breeding the beaks become a bright blue.

GREEN HERON

CATTLE EGRET

GREAT EGRET

The Great Egret is a very large white bird that looks similar to a White Heron.  The difference is the Egret has black legs.  The plumages are fanned during courtship and the lores (part of the beak) turn green.  

LIMPKIN

BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK

COMMON MOORHEN

AMERICAN COOT

PIED-BILLED GREBE

PURPLE GALLINULE

SNOWY EGRET

FLORIDA WILDLIFE 2015

WHITE IBIS

WHITE -FACED IBIS