Egretta rufescens
Reddish Egrets are medium sized wading birds with blue-gray bodies and shaggy rufous heads and necks. Bills are pink with dark tips in breeding plumage. There are also white morph Reddish Egrets.
Title: Reddish Egret back lit by the morning sun
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Title: Staring Reddish Egret
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Title: Reddish Egret in green water
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Title: Reddish Egret as still as a statue
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Title: Reddish Egret near the mangroves
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/1/2008
Title: Reddish Egret hunting in low light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/16/2008
Title: Pair of Reddish Egrets fighting over prey
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret food fight
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret, Wind and Waves
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Dark morph Reddish Egret racing into the wind
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret on the run
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret with a tiny fish
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Surf dancing Reddish Egret dark morph
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret stabbing prey
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret being shadowed by Laughing Gulls
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret defending its prey from a Laughing Gull
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret in front of the waves
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret hunting
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret dancing on the shoreline of the Gulf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: Reddish Egret and Laughing Gulls
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, FL
Date: 9/12/2008
Title: White morph Reddish Egret after catching a small fish
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/20/2008
Title: White morph Reddish Egret walking past at the edge of the Gulf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/20/2008
Title: Reddish Egret in a Matador like pose
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/20/2008
Title: White Morph Reddish Egret hunting ahead of a storm
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
Title: White morph Reddish Egret with a stormy background
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
Title: White morph Reddish Egret in dramatic light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
Title: White Morph Reddish Egret before the storm
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008
Title: Reddish Egret bathed in stormy light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 7/6/2008