Helpful Posts: We are in the middle of our winter drought. As a result, a lot of water holes are reduced in size or completely dried up. This one is getting smaller every day which makes for a wonderful concentration of the fish in it. This also means it becomes an easy feeding area for the birds and they also get concentrated in the area.
The Roseate Spoonbill only hunts in water where it's beak can reach the bottom easily. As they stir the mud up other birds follow them for what gets stirred up and missed. The bigger birds like the Herons stay a bit further away looking for the disturbance to herd larger fish their way.
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3rd February 2017, 04:05 AM #1
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A couple more from the retention pond today
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3rd February 2017, 07:50 AM #2
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Re: A couple more from the retention pond today
That spoonbill is really impressive Brian.
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3rd February 2017, 10:21 AM #3
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Re: A couple more from the retention pond today
Nice captures.
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3rd February 2017, 11:13 AM #4
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Re: A couple more from the retention pond today
Beautiful birds and capture. Really like them and well done.
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3rd February 2017, 12:09 PM #5
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Re: A couple more from the retention pond today
Couple of nice ones, Brian. The LBH is really nice. Shot my first one of those two days ago. Nicely done.
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3rd February 2017, 12:32 PM #6
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Re: A couple more from the retention pond today
Awesome!!!captive ash and seducing pink...really love them
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3rd February 2017, 06:56 PM #7
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Re: A couple more from the retention pond today
Both very nice
I thought the second one was a different kind of flamingo before reading your explanation 
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