Plume Preening

 

“Be known for your kindness and grace.” 

 – Unknown

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Seahorse

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

- Colin Neenan

Another image from our trip to the NC Aquarium.  

I could have spent all day here! 

In looking up info on seahorses -- I found that they are the only fish with a neck.

I didn't even realize they were classified as fish.  

So I've learned something new today!

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The Great Egret

The Long Necks of the Egrets and the Herons amaze me!

Looks like he's walking towards me

The entire Reflection

This is the same image just cropped in different ways.  

Image made June 2012 during our vacation in North Carolina

Linking with Wild Bird Wednesday 

Egret Grabs Lunch

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.  

~ Tom Peters

White Ibis -- Posing at the NC Aquarium

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"You have to be unique, 
and different, 
and shine in your own way."

~ Lady Gaga

These are birds I don't see very often - usually just when I'm on vacation in NC.  This one posed for me at the NC Aquarium (Pine Knoll Shores)  I LOVE that curve of his bill.  This one was in the middle of preening but paused just a moment for me.

Lion Fish at NC Aquarium

I fell in LOVE with the Lion fish at the NC Aquarium!

This is my Artsy Version.

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Heron and the Long Neck Stretch

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

~Les Brown

Taken while vacationing at Pine Knoll Shores, NC

In Over His Head ~ Almost

  I thought this Ibis looked like it was in "over his head" but it was most likely the perfect place for him to find some food. Sometimes in life, we can feel like we are in WAY over our heads, but eventually find out that it was really the perfect place for us to be at just the right time.

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
 ~ E.E. Cummings

Blending In

One of my photos from vacation ~ taken at the NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores. They have a FANTASTIC boardwalk area that takes you to little marshes. This is closely cropped so a bit of distortion. I am not sure of the ID on this lovely ~ but one thing I know for sure ~ he blends in to his surroundings quite nicely :)
Edited:  possibly a Juvie Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Free to Fly

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

~Winston Churchill