Spoonie Is Not Happy
This morning I took advantage of what I thought was a break in the rain we’ve been getting pummelled with for the past two days and went over to the salt marsh to check out a spoonbill that was feeding there along with some wood storks. For the first few minutes everything was fine and the spoonbill was feeding happily. Then the rain started again and it really came down hard this time! When I last saw our pink friend he was just standing there looking rather disgusted with the whole situation.
I also took a few seconds of video so you could see how it was really pouring…
Phil Lanoue Photography 
Very nice. That’s generally how I look when it’s raining.
🙂 Me too, especially when I get cold feet! 🙂
I had wet feet by the time I got out of there. 🙂
You should have seen me getting out of there, I looked like a half drowned cat.
I just heard, they are going to use the one of him in the rain on our local 6pm ABC TV News tonight as a weather shot.
Awesome
P.S. Wonderful captures, Phil! I adore the expressions, great work.
Thanks I’m happy you enjoyed these!
Very nice photos, Phil. I’d love to hear the sound of heavy rain out here in California. It’s too hot, too dry right now.
Glad you liked the pics Deb! Having this much rain is unusual for us. It’s almost always a nice day here practically to the point of monotony.
Wonderful shots Phil, the Spoonbill in the rain is awesome.
He was giving me a look which I’m sure if it was more thinking I was crazy for being out in this, or stop taking my photo or I will bite your nose off.
That’s one beautiful spoonbill, some awfully heavy rain AND fabulous text color!
Ha! Glad you like that text color! So glad Word Press had Spoonbill Pink as a choice. Not sure what color goes best with alligators though.
If they have Spoonbill Pink, surely they have Gator Green?
Yeah that should work!
I just heard, they are going to use the one of him in the rain on our local 6pm ABC TV News tonight as a weather shot.
I just heard, they are going to use the one of him in the rain on our local 6pm ABC TV News tonight as a weather shot.
Shut up! That’s fantastic – how did it look on the boob tube?!
Yeah it looked OK, they ran it at 7pm also. They frequently run weather shots of mine on the TV news.
OH snap local celebrity! Very cool.
Maybe he should have heart the song “Only happy when it rains”. 😉
I don’t think he was happy. I know I wasn’t happy. 🙂
Oh no, when it’s raining that horrible way I look at the same kind! 🙄
I looked worse then the bird when I left the area. 🙂
The poor guy. 😦 Still, they are nice photographs.
He does not look very pleased at all to be out in the pouring rain, but so it goes in nature.
I’m glad you liked the photos!
Wonderful captures, Phil!
Thanks Amy, glad you like ’em!
Although soaked to the skin, you still make him look quite handsome. I hope they hang around for awhile so I can continue to enjoy them until they head this way.
Those adults can get a little rough looking when they get their ‘old man’ heads. The juvies are cuter with their white fluffy heads but they are also less bright pink.
Thanks for looking Molly!
I know exactly how he feels. Vancouver is known for its many days of rain. I love following your blog – always a story, always a smile and always a great welcome!
Days like this are fairly rare for us it’s almost always a sunny day here so I don’t think even the animals know what to do with any kind of severe weather. Even the alligators seemed to stay inside their little gator huts today. 🙂
I’m happy you enjoy the photos and stories!
I do!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I hadn’t noticed the green head on the spoonie previously (blinded by the beautiful pink?) The head almost looks like a vulture… I wouldn’t mind taking a bit of that rain. Hope you kept the camera dry! 🙂
The adults get that ‘old man’ head look. The youngsters still have their white fluffy heads but they are a much paler pink in color. We should be just about done with rain now it will be back to nice and sunny shortly. 🙂
Oh, poor thing – he looks so sorry for himself! At the same time, Phil, it is comforting to know that even in your great climate you, too, get days of rain like that!
He does look fairly disgusted with the weather conditions. Even the animals are not used to it being anything other then a nice sunny day here. I didn’t see any alligators out in the marsh pond at all so I guess they must have all stayed inside and looked at movies all day same as the tourists that get skunked out of beach time on a rainy day.
Wow he looks like a very disgruntled flamingo, Phil!
He is quite disgruntled indeed! He came here expecting nice weather and gets rained on, so it’s not only the tourists who are disappointed I guess. 🙂
You had to get drenched too! Poor guys…
I managed not to get totally drenched, well actually I kinda did, but I kept my camera mostly dry. 🙂
He’s probably thinking: why did I bother to come here? And why doesn’t someone offer me an umbrella?
He might exactly have been wondering why he was there because I went back this morning and saw zero spoonbills. Hope they didn’t get totally disgusted with the rain and leave, beautiful day here today though/
He looks as though he’s about to burst into tears. 😦 Great photos again, Phil.
Ha! He sure does Sylvia! Perfect description. Glad you liked seeing our pink friend!
Awww, poor spoonie.. A cute pink bird shouldn’t look that sad, it breaks my heart :p
He looked very sad indeed and that was the last time we saw it. I guess he did not care for being wet all the time and left the area. Too bad too because it got so sunny every day right after the rain stopped.