Captured in the early morning near Toronto, beg. of September
Excellent shot! Black legs and feet with yellow bill, most likely a Great egret.
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Egrets, I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention.
Are you sure that's not an egret?
Absolutely not :D
I was only visiting on holidays, so not familiar with the local wildlife. I googled it after I shot the bird and acc. to Wikipedia Egrets are Herons.. Since this one is white I figured it's a white heron. But googling some more triggered by your question I understand now they are a distinct species and not a heron?
I'm not an expert, if it's in the US it is probably an egret, I do not know what Eurasia has going on. Or Africa.
It's in Canada
That photo is sharp! Camera, lens, settings?
Tamron 50-400 on a Sony Alpha 7 Compact II.
Settings I'll have up look up, think shutter was around 1/1000, aperture wide open, full zoom as I didn't want to disturb the bird.
Also this was perhaps 30min after sunrise, good light always helps :)
we call them egrets! gorgeous birds.
Yellow beak is a heron, black beak is an egret.
Great Egret. Medium Egret. Chinese Egret. Cattle Egret. The fucking Yellow-billed Egret.
Are you maybe thinking of swans? Trumpeter swans have black beaks, European ones have orange.
No.
Oh. So you are just an idiot.