Phil Lanoue Photography
I previously worked as a news and sports photographer. Recently I have been enjoying wildlife photography. My approach toward bird photos is similar to sports photography. I attempt to capture mostly action and hopefully a unique perspective.
Hungry Boy
This alligator feeding in the salt marsh looked hungry to me…
Getting Along OK
Two wood storks and a young alligator all quietly go about their business on a recent afternoon in the marsh pond.
The storks seemed oblivious to the alligator’s presence, and the gator totally ignored the wood storks.
It’s nice to see everyone getting on so well. 🙂
Recent Flights
Here are a few flight shots from the last couple of days.
We have a tricolored heron, night heron, white ibis, and of course, “Radar”!
Tricolored Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
“Radar”
Hacking Up A “Hairball”
Or in this case…hacking up a crab. 🙂
Earlier this weekend I was watching a white ibis fishing in the salt marsh during low tide. At one point the ibis bent down, opened his mouth up wide, and at first I didn’t know what he was doing. When I saw something pop out into his mouth, I quickly realized he had just hacked up a small crab that must have been stuck in his throat.
The ibis then dipped the crab into the water apparently to get it lubricated for smooth trip back down the hatch where it stayed down nicely this time!
Handsome Heron
I grabbed this quick portrait shot of a great blue heron posing at the edge of the marsh yesterday evening just as we were leaving for the night…I thought he looked rather dignified.
There’s Always Room For More Radar!
Since everyone seems to enjoy seeing our favorite electronically enhanced great egret “Radar”, I thought it might be nice to post a few more shots of our good friend.
These were taken later the same day as the photos I posted yesterday of Radar.
After a productive afternoon fishing, a guy likes to spiff himself up and get the feathers all looking their best! So Radar moved over to the other side of the reeds for a nice preening session. He started working under his wings and then as the sun got lower, he made his way to the outside portion making sure each feather was nicely groomed.
Such a handsome boy!
Hey It’s Radar!
We were thrilled as always to see our buddy “Radar” come flying into the marsh earlier this week. Many of you will remember Radar as the egret with the transmitter pack attached to his back with antennas sticking out of it.
Radar has established himself as head egret of the marsh and pretty much rules the place. Even the alligators know and respect Radar. 🙂
He is also quite skilled at catching fish and we saw him grab and eat several in a short amount of time.
Young Woody Flies In
Earlier this week we had several wood storks show up in the marsh. They were all adults except for this one juvenile that I was keeping an eye on because I was interested to see how he would get along with all the other birds.
He stayed with the adults for a short while, then abruptly took off on his own and performed a nice landing over on the near edge of the pond area.
The youngster was a great flyer and looked like he would be just fine!
Phil Lanoue Photography 