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Alabaster Bird
Friends, this Great Egret is huge compared to yesterday’s sandpiper, so i am again practicing my flying shots.He looks like he is carved from white alabaster, white and a bit translucent, a different look than the sharply focused feathers, probably too slow a shutter speed, but i like the different feel. There was a flock of about twenty birds on the marsh so lots of squabbling and flying, an antithesis of the serene solitary flying bird, the next day they were gone, flew south to better weather, til Tomorrow MJ
The Great Egret on the blue
Friends, this great white bird is a great egret, a few of these come this far north, very few, but there are three birds hanging around fish lake which is another wildlife refuge that is just a few mile down the road from Crex. They share the Glacial Grantsburg Lakes ecology. In a recent photo contest, one of the categories was pleasing blurs, do you think this image would qualify as pleasing, the wing tips are blurred. til Tomorrow MJ
MJ Springett 