Mated Whited Great Egrets - Hand Embellished Giclee Painting Bird Art and waterfront culture

and waterfront culture

Barbara Fallenbaum's Original Oil Painting of a Roseate Spoonbill fledgling getting ready to leave the nest

we have a beautiful male that inhabits our cove and he usually chases other Great Blue Herons off

You can tell it's still a baby because it has not lost the feather on the top of its head

Mated Whited Great Egrets - Hand Embellished Giclee Painting Bird Art and waterfront culturePainting of a pair of White Great Egrets in mating plumage. The majestic white Great Egret gets more dressed up during mating season. A patch of skin on its face turns neon green, and long plumes grow from its back. Those plumes nearly brought the white great egret to extinction during the late 1800 when they were hunted for these aigrettes (long plumes). Saw this pair off to themselves at Fort DeSoto Park preening and cooing. A hand painted giclee