Wood storks are born looking like old souls. These babies are only a few months old and already look like an old man. I stopped by the bird rookery in north Tampa in mid-April and the little island in the middle of the small lake was full of older babies. Wood storks were the predominant birds with a few great egret and cattle egrets nesting as well.
This rookery is so busy that the families were all on top of each other.
Triplets were posing for me.
Parents were back and forth bringing in food and more padding for the nests.
I think these were the youngest ones there. All still fuzzy and white.
Wood stork babies seem to be more quiet than great egret babies. There wasn’t as much clacking going on.Since the island is in the middle of the lake, these were all taken with my 300mm lens and cropped up.
Linking to Wednesday Around the World.
Such a treat to see these fabulous photos that you captured of these babies! thanks so much for sharing
Wonderful!
Great photos!
I have never seen Wood Storks in the wild
They have wonderful character-filled faces! Loved these shots of the babies at the rookery!
Terrific series!
I like that: “.. born old souls…” Each time I look in the mirror, I can relate. 🙂