Great Egret with Lizard Who is Holding onto Wood Photograph by Linda Brody

Great Egret with Lizard Who is Holding onto Wood

by Linda Brody

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Title

Great Egret with Lizard Who is Holding onto Wood

Artist

Linda Brody

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Great Egret in the Neighborhood with Fresh Lunch.

After being captured, this lizard struggled, while still holding onto a piece of wooden fence that it was trying to hold onto. Eventually, the lizard dropped the wood and lunch began for the egret.

We live about 15 miles from the pacific coast (Orange County, CA), but do have Irvine Lake and Peters Canyon (wildlife ecological areas) nearby. In the Spring of 2015, this Great Egret landed on a neighbor's yard, and I tracked it for about 2 hours while it casually and cautiously foraged for food. At first, I could not figure out what he was doing. But eventually he started catching western fence lizards and alligator lizards. I am used to seeing these shore birds at the water catching fish.

Some of the photos in this series are closeups of him catching/feeding on the lizards.

The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many a North American wetland. Slightly smaller and more svelte than a Great Blue Heron, these are still large birds with impressive wingspans. They hunt in classic heron fashion, standing immobile or wading through wetlands to capture fish with a deadly jab of their yellow bill. Great Egrets were hunted nearly to extinction for their plumes in the late nineteenth century, sparking conservation movements and some of the first laws to protect birds.

My Gallery of Shore Birds contains Snowy Egrets as well. They have a black beak and yellow feet, whereas the Great Egret has a yellow beak and black feet as seen here.

This photograph has been featured in the following Groups:
FAA Bird Portraits
Poetic Poultry
Wild Birds of the World

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