Spoonbill Camera Discovery
By Jo Ann
@akalinus (40797)
United States
February 25, 2024 12:48pm CST
I heard a commotion outside at the pond. I saw a magnificent Roseate Spoonbill. It was pink and its bill was big and flat like a shovel. It was flipping fish out of the water and gobbling them up.
I tried to take a picture using two fingers as a zoom. It was a terrible picture. I kept seeing numbers on the bottom of the screen and tried moving them while looking at the pond. I could get clear closeups. I could dial it to the size for myLot.
Unfortunately, the spoonbill was gone. I thought roseate spoonbills were ocean birds and this is a small pond. If it stays around, it will eat all the fish and go somewhere else.
It takes a bird to show me how to use a phone camera.
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@just4him (308692)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
26 Feb
That bird showed up here a few months ago. I didn't see it, but it made big news.
I'm glad you got to see the bird. I'm glad you learned how to use your camera phone. I'm still learning with my new phone. My pictures are too big for myLot.
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@snowy22315 (171267)
• United States
25 Feb
I hate it when you can't get a good pic of something picturesque.
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@snowy22315 (171267)
• United States
27 Feb
@akalinus They are neat looking birds.
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@akalinus (40797)
• United States
27 Feb
@snowy22315 I don't know why they decided to rest there. But I was lucky to get a photo of them.
@akalinus (40797)
• United States
27 Feb
Yeah, it pretty much sucks. I saw a big flock of ibises landing on the street in front of my house a few years ago. I took photos but they were running down the street. I enlarged one of the photos to show the birds better. I only got a few of the birds but it is a good photo.
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@kaylachan (58971)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Feb
I guess it was hungry. Some animals do venture away from their natural habitats to find food.
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@kaylachan (58971)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Feb
@akalinus It would've eaten its fill (however much that might've been) and then flown off.
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@akalinus (40797)
• United States
25 Feb
@kaylachan It was just getting started when the guy scared it away.
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@GardenGerty (157915)
• United States
26 Feb
We had a flamingo hanging out at local lakes here in central Kansas, and they are tropical. It had been blown off course from migration during a hurricane.
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@akalinus (40797)
• United States
27 Feb
That is wild. People have been seeing unusual birds where they live. I heard that people saw a puffin in Florida. Puffins live in the Arctic, I believe. What are they doing in Florida? I don't know where you live but a flamingo is a rarity, from what you said.
I thought the spoonbill was a flamingo because it was so big but I caught his big shovel-like bill in my binoculars and am certain it was a spoonbill.
@LindaOHio (158688)
• United States
26 Feb
Spoonbills are lovely. We saw many in Florida. Have a good week.
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@TraveOnWorld (859)
• Georgia
26 Feb
Lucky to have seen this. I've never been able to take good zoom pictures with a phone camera, I think for wildlife photography one needs zoom lens add-ons
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