How proud this Cattle Egret looks, having caught this huge grasshopper! Their stomach contents consist of about 30% orthopterida (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and locusts) and about 60% horseflies. Around our cattle pastures, you may have seen small white egrets next to the cattle, or even standing on top of them. Their gawky, head-pumping walk, short…

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What is this Wood Stork doing? It’s that time of year… Yes, this large bird is carrying a branch to build a large platform nest of sticks. Lisa Willnow used her Sony SLT-A65V, f/11, 1/1250 sec, ISO-800, Sony 70-300 mm lens to catch the action. Our only native stork is a tropical and subtropical species…

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Usually we see a blur of wings as our tiny 3-inch Ruby-throated Hummingbird, weighing less than a nickel, hums by. Their wings beat so fast, at least 55 times per second, but by using a fast shutter speed, Lee Benson stopped action with his Nikon D300, Aperture Priority, f/5.6 at 1/1600 sec, ISO-500, Nikkor 2.8…

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Crows, like many birds, are more vocal when they begin earnest mating rituals in February and March.  The male American Crow on the right, slightly larger, is the ardent pursuer. This female seems reluctant, doesn’t she?  Being all black, it is very difficult to take good photographs of crows, yet Milton Heiberg, with a Canon EOS 40D…

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