Photos of Reddish Egrets - Bolivar Peninsula, TX - April 18 - May 4, 2024 - Chasing, Part 1

/

This is the first of a few additions to my blog with photos of Reddish Egrets taken during my recent visit to the Bolivar Peninsula. I have sorted the photos of the birds feeding activity into three categories: chasing, capturing, and consuming. This entry is Chasing - Part 1.

The photos are of a Reddish Egret feeding in the Bolivar Flats Audubon Sanctuary adjacent to Rettilion (no litter spelled backwards) Road in Port Bolivar, TX. All photos were taken with an Olympus OM-1 camera with Olympus 150-400mm lens. Settings were f4.5 @ 400mm 1/4000 sec at f/5.6, ISO 500.

Click on an image to see a slightly larger view.

/ /

David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.