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Some of the baby great egrets I've been watching these past few weeks are getting close to fledging! Here are a pair of them using their words and tidying their feathers. They are tremendously gawky and cute (imho).

Photo of two very young, gawky, white birds shown through a network of lobed and needled pine branches. They are standing in their nest, the tuft of a sibling around their knobby ankles, one of them with eir head tucked, grooming, the other stretching out eir neck and opening eir thin orange bill wide to cry out. The noisemaker's head is shown clearly against the blue or the sky, eir small eye with its big pupil weird and wonderful, the feathers on eir head tufty and sparse, like a corona of baby hair.
Photo of the same two young egrets, the noisemaker now with eir head pulled in and hunkered down in profile in a more traditional heron's "S" shape.
Photo of the same two once more, the one on the left standing in profile and poofed up, like a beaked pompom on dark stilts, the one on the right with eir head upside down, bill preening the somewhat sparse, floofy feathers of their belly.
#EgretsIveHadAFew#Birding#Oregon
Jun 23, 2023, 09:50 PM·Public
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