Wildlife, landscape and weather photography
Here’s kind of a fun bird I snapped some pics of last weekend.
It and a couple dozen of its friends were hanging out in a low-lying area that rain and filled up. They worked their way through the marsh-like grass, nabbing little insects as they went along.
We usually only see them on the plains during migration so it was fun to captures some pics of them during that window. Their iridescent coloring is just way too cool.
This is one bird I had not taken pictures of before. Quite unusual looking with those long, curved bills but also beautiful with their iridescent plumage. This pair was hanging out in a nearby pond yesterday during one of the many snow squalls we had yesterday.
These birds spend their winters in Mexico with some living year-round along the Gulf Coast. During summers they migrate through the western United States and breed in a few different locations across the region.
