I was sent out to GPS some lots on Monday and found some snowy egrets in a field. So I grabbed the D200 and took a couple of grab shots of one of them eating. It was raining and I didn't want to take my D200 out in the rain, so I rolled down my window and took these from the truck.

I was sent out to GPS some lots on Monday and found some snowy egrets in a field. So I grabbed the D200 and took a couple of grab shots of one of them eating. It was raining and I didn't want to take my D200 out in the rain, so I rolled down my window and took these from the truck.

Cool. Bad day for that (frog?), I guess. I think the bird is actually a cattle egret, though. They have that colored area on top that you can see in the third picture and you tend to find them in fields.

Yup that's a breeding plumage(faded) cattle egret alright. Snowy egrets have black bills :wink:

Cool. Bad day for that (frog?), I guess. I think the bird is actually a cattle egret, though. They have that colored area on top that you can see in the third picture and you tend to find them in fields.

My bad!

I'm not really a birder you know...

;-)

I'm not sure if that was a toad or a leapord frog it was eating. But it made short work of it, whatever it was.

Yup that's a breeding plumage(faded) cattle egret alright. Snowy egrets have black bills :wink:

Now I know!

Now if I can just remember that particular tidbit...

;-)

Thanks buddy!

That's you last correction :lol:

Hey us non birders deserve a little respect too. You knew it was an egret, I think that was pretty darn good. Nice catch Speed.

HAHAHA, I talk to Speed off site and ID his birds whenever he gets one. Rob is ok in my book.... dispite his nikon :lol:

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

I'd be lost without your guidance.

I'm a bird novice.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey us non birders deserve a little respect too. You knew it was an egret, I think that was pretty darn good. Nice catch Speed.


Thank you OT. These were grab shots for sure. When I saw the egret, I grabbed the D200, rolled down my window, and started shooting. I got two shots of it with the frog in it's mouth, and it was done. I don't know how it ate something that big, that quick. But it made short work of it's lunch!

"Hey us non birders deserve a little respect too."

I know a few of the birds around here. I know we have red tail hawks, and osprey's and some sort of small hawk (which I'm looking to get a photo of, so Paul can ID it for me). I can identify Mourning Doves, Crows, Blue Jays, Turkey Vultures, and some of the other "common" birds. But I am NOT a birder by any means.

HAHAHA, I talk to Speed off site and ID his birds whenever he gets one. Rob is ok in my book.... dispite his nikon :lol:


"dispite his nikon" :lol:

Thank you my friend!

That's very magnanomous of you.

:-D