Quote Originally Posted by Sheiky
Haha it doesn't really look green to me, nice colors that's for sure, but I wouldn't know why they called it a green heron [img]/emoticons/emotion-4.gif[/img]

True. Whoever names all these birds had a very creative mind. Sometimes the name isn't accurate (Green Heron), sometimes it's rather weird (think: Blue footed booby ~ the spaniards named it a booby or "dunce" because it was unafraid of humans) and sometimes the name hampers identification ~ the American Goldfinch male is golden yellow, but only in summer. Females, juveniles and winter males are actually quite pale.


About that egret, it was actually an accident! I was taking pictures of a moorhen when the Egret flew overhead; I didn't have time to adjust settings and so at first I thought it was washed out. Still having mixed opinions about that one.


brendan