Reader’s wildlife videos
We have two new videos from Tara Tanaka in Florida, featuring Wood Storks mating and Great Egrets proffering sticks. The mating looks like an ungainly act! Tara’s captions are indented; her Vimeo site is here and her Flickr site is here). During spring and early summer the sound of male Wood Storks clacking their beaks … Continue reading Reader’s wildlife videos
We have two new videos from Tara Tanaka in Florida, featuring Wood Storks mating and Great Egrets proffering sticks. The mating looks like an ungainly act!
Tara’s captions are indented; her Vimeo site is here and her Flickr site is here).
During spring and early summer the sound of male Wood Storks clacking their beaks against the female’s beak as they mate is can be heard frequently from our yard, but we rarely see them. I videoed a pair last week, as their nest-neighbors looked on. If the male had arms, I think he would be really good at patting his head and rubbing his stomach at the same time.
The light was hitting their wings in a way that you can see the beautiful iridescent green in their wing feathers that usually just look black.
Click to start the videos (there’s also an arrow at lower left):
My heart is so full from all of your kind comments on the Great Egret photo and the Wood Storks mating that I wanted to share a video that I shot of the male Great Egret bringing a stick to the nest. I usually shoot video at 60 fps, but switched to 120 fps so I could slow it down and you could see how beautiful his plumes are and how graceful he is as he lands. Hard to believe that many herons and egrets were almost hunted to extinction to provide feathers for women’s hats.
Enjoy this very short, slow-motion video!:
