After posting my guess, I did a google image search - two tabs - for
Tricolor Heron Juvenile and for Little Blue Heron Juvenile and switched
back and forth between your image and the images Google turned up.
I also noticed the missing white color. Several of the juvenile Little
Blue Herons had that same gray body/red head & neck, so I've changed my
mind.
I now think it's a Little Blue Heron.
On 3/5/2017 4:27 PM, Stanley Halpin wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions!
Paul, I don’t think it is a Little Blue - the head and neck were definitely
brownish, not blue grey.
And Ann, John, I had initially thought “tricolored” but the white was missing
and I couldn’t find a bi-colored listed anyplace!
I pulled out another couple books, I tend to mostly refer to Peterson because I
like the illustrations therein, but I have others. In the Sibley field guide
(Eastern) the sketch of a second year Reddish Egret (dark morph) looks like it
is a match. I had considered and rejected the Reddish i.d. because the Peterson
guide shows the adult feathers to be quite “shaggy”, but the sleeker appearance
of a two-year old seems to be right.
Still open to alternative suggestions…
Whatever variety of bird he is, he was not at all spooked by nearby people.
When I first spotted him on that dock, and in the shots I posted where he is
intently watching something below, the activity below was two guys working on
loading a boat onto a trailer to haul it out of the water on the ramp adjacent
to the dock.
stan
On Mar 5, 2017, at 2:49 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
A bit of research got me to this
https://fsuornithology.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/the-tricolored-heron-more-than-just-a-pretty-face/
so -- Juvenile TRi-colored heron looks like the best bet...
He's very handsome and nice shots of him!
ann
On 3/5/2017 2:18 PM, Stanley Halpin wrote:
Speaking of birds, I believe this is some version of a heron, but am not sure.
Juvenile?
Taken early February, south end of the Everglades Park road.
Three shots, beginning here:
http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/h84cd6fd2#h84cd6fd2
stan
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