Phil Lanoue Photography

Pretty Pink Flowers

Quite often, people come up to me and say… ‘Hey, Phil, I know you take some nice shots of birds and other wildlife but have you ever thought about taking flower photos? I bet you could take some nice ones!’

Ok, that’s totally made up, nobody ever says that to me, I came up with the idea all on my own.

This morning, since none of our pink spoonbill visitors were around, as soon as I spotted these lovely pink blooms at the edge of the marsh I figured this would be a great opportunity to try out flower photography. So here ya go, this is my experiment, hope y’all like it!

Oh, BTW… while I was there some alligator munched down a nice size flounder that he caught.

Show Off

We had a few spoonbills out in the salt marsh this morning and they were quite active the entire time.

One in particular stood out because it looked like he was trying out a new dance routine by showing off some fancy footwork in among the oyster beds.

After the performance was concluded, he looked quite pleased with himself and appeared ready to accept the applause of the adoring crowd.

In truth, it was quite entertaining and I personally would love to see the show again some time!

Reverse Course

This weekend an alligator was heading off across the marsh when he suddenly decided he wanted to go in the other direction.

All that was required was a wide left turn and then wait for the tail to catch up to the front part of his body. 🙂

Evening Flight

An egret heads across the marsh this evening just above the water, which was warmed by setting sunlight.

Nap Time

Well our five pink visitors are still here and were found napping in the middle of the day (some life, who do they think they are? Alligators?!?) in the marsh this afternoon.

All was peaceful and quiet until one decided it was time to go and leapfrogged over his friend on the way out.

Spoonbills And Wood Storks

This morning we had a couple of spoonbills feeding in the salt marsh with a group of wood storks. Everyone got along just fine for the most part until it seemed as if one wood stork developed a bit of an attitude.

The spoonbills seemed quite perplexed about what exactly was going on, so they decided to vacate the premises.

Soon they were high tailing it across the marsh, flying off to go join their pink buddies at the far back edge of the pond.

Unwanted Attention

A great blue heron plucked out a nice size fish for himself at the marsh yesterday morning and that attracted the attention of several wood storks.

The storks were really hoping the heron would drop his fish, and were doing their best to make that happen, but big blue managed to keep and eat his prize!

Fun With Spoonbills!

Yesterday evening we had four spoonbills show up (finally) in the marsh area. So we had to go over this morning to see if they stayed through the night.

Initially we only saw the one. He seemed a bit overwhelmed at being surrounded by wood storks for most of the time, but he also made the best of the situation. At one point the lone spoonie decided to have a little fun and he picked up a lost wood stork feather and played around with that for a while.

Finally I spotted one of his buddies flying in from across the marsh, he did one slow circle then landed in to join his friend.

They were quite active and one even tried giving his spoonie pal a hard time by nipping at the tail feathers a bit.

Soon the last two came gliding in together and the entire crew was together again. Of course Mr. You Know Who had to get involved. Perhaps he remembers these guys from last summer and wanted to make they understand that he is in charge of the entire area. (well until a bigger alligator comes along)

When we it started to rain we left while the four pink friends appeared to be settling in for some grooming and a nice afternoon nap. Fun morning out there for sure!