Flying Spoonbill
by Judi Dressler
Title
Flying Spoonbill
Artist
Judi Dressler
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A couple of spoonbills were wading in a pond behind some reeds, swishing their strange-looking bills back and forth in the water. And when I had just given up that anything more was going to happen and was starting to pack up my gear, suddenly this bird flew off. I raced to unpack, and felt lucky to get this shot!
From Audubon's website: "Gorgeous at a distance and bizarre up close is the Roseate Spoonbill. Locally common in coastal Florida, Texas, and southwest Louisiana, they are usually in small flocks, often associating with other waders. Spoonbills feed in shallow waters, walking forward slowly while they swing their heads from side to side, sifting the muck with their wide flat bills."
Photo taken on October 8, 2017, on South Padre Island, Texas
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Descriptive keywords and tags include spoonbills, roseate spoonbills, spoon bill, spoon, pink birds, pink, birds, flying, aquatic, shore, shorebirds, coastal, coast, wading, platalea ajaja, platalea, chordata, wild, wildlife, nature, avian, s padre island, south, padre island, texas, photo, photograph, photography, and judi dressler.
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October 15th, 2017
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Comments (22)
Gary F Richards
Spectacular pink floral composition, lighting, shading, lovely colors and artwork! F/L voted
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #17 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.....L/F/Tw
JOHN TELFER
Judi, Fantastic stop action image of this Spoonbill in full flight, great details and colors. I have nominated this image for a Special Feature in the group, 1000 Views LF
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
Judi Dressler
Thank YOU, William! :) And thank you so much for the feature in "Wild Birds Of The World"!
William Tasker
Yay! Thank you! I don't agree with Audubon's. They are stunning, up close and far away! Gorgeous shot that makes me happy inside! Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World, a nature photography group. L/F
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