Hi Honey - You're Home

by DB Hayes

Title

Hi Honey - You're Home

Artist

DB Hayes

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Fine Art Americas (FAA) watermark does NOT appear on sold copies of art as FAA removes the watermark before each copy is "museum quality" printed onto canvass, photo-paper, metal, acrylic or any of FAA's many other available medias regardless of which one is chosen by the buyer.

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It is an honor for us to write our "Hi Honey - You're Home" has been featured by the following highly respected art groups on the date by each group's name:

1 - Wild Birds of the World: 5/09/2017
2 - Birds In Focus: 5/11/2017
3 - FAA Portraits - Birds: 5/12/2017

Deb and I, once again, returned to the Alligator Farm's bird rookery located in Saint Augustine, Florida on Friday, April 21, 2017 to update our collection of large bird images for the future. This scene was captured by yours truly (Bill), which is showing, I'm assuming a male great egret returning to its female mate with a rather large stick for building their nest or perhaps for repairing or reinforcing the existing nest. The female looks as though she is happy to see her mate return, which led me to the title of this image. Now for several interesting facts regarding this wonderful species.

This long-legged, S-necked white bird (great egret is the common name and its scientist name is ardea alba) is found throughout the Americas and around much of the world. It is typically the largest white egret occurring anywhere in its range (only the white-colored form of the great blue heron is larger).

Great egrets are found near water, salt or fresh, and feed in wetlands, streams, ponds, tidal flats, and other areas. They snare prey by walking slowly or standing still for long periods, waiting for an animal to come within range of their long necks and blade-like bills. The deathblow is delivered with a quick thrust of the sharp bill, and the prey is swallowed whole. Fish are a dietary staple, but great egrets use similar techniques to eat amphibians, reptiles, mice, and other small animals.

These birds nest in trees, near water and gather in groups called colonies, which may include other heron or egret species. They are monogamous, and both parents incubate their three to four eggs. Young egrets are aggressive towards one another in the nest, and stronger siblings often kill their weaker kin so that not all survive to fledge in two to three weeks.

The great egret is the symbol of the National Audubon Society and represents a conservation success story. The snowy white bird's beautiful plumage made it far too popular in 19th-century North America. Great egrets were decimated by plume hunters who supplied purveyors of the latest ladies' fashions. Their populations plunged by some 95 percent. Today the outlook is much brighter. The birds have enjoyed legal protection over the last century, and their numbers have increased substantially.

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Bill and Deb Hayes

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April 22nd, 2017

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