Your wildlife photos: Mother cares for newborn Great Egrets
Andrea Walker of South Tampa shares a photo gallery capturing a mother Great Egrets caring for its newborns. Walker says she spotted the birds in New Port Richey on Thursday. Above, the mother bird watches her newborns as they break out of their eggs.
Walker says these newborns start life with "a bad hair day."
In this photo, the mother bird looks to feed her babies for the first time.
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Note: The photo captions and text have been updated to reflect that the birds are Great Egrets.
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These are awesome photographs ... but great white cranes they are not.
But I'm very much in favor of baby birds:
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Posted by: David | July 05, 2009 at 09:30 PM
It is a "Great Egret"
Posted by: Paul | July 05, 2009 at 08:03 PM
Crane?
Great White Crane?
Nice photos, but you might want to check your birds.
Posted by: Chris | July 04, 2009 at 11:08 AM