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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Super windy day, but it ended up giving this Great Egret a little flair for its portrait. 💙🤍 #birds #photography

A Great Egret perched high on bare, tangled branches against a clear blue sky. Strong wind blows its long white shoulder and back feathers outward, giving the bird a windswept appearance.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Beautiful! Weird how much life mirrors each other (grammatically correct?) 🤔

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What’s scary is that an actual photo of him like this probably exists somewhere.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Im not sure they have another “mode.” 😊 There ended up being 6 total before they started dispersing.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People have town squares. These birds have 'The Log.' Today’s occupants: one Great Egret, one Mallard. They may have even had a conversation. 🤎🤍

A Great Egret and a Mallard stand at opposite ends of a partially submerged log in a shallow pond. The much taller egret stands upright with its long neck curved into an S-shape, while the Mallard stands quietly at the other end.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Great Egret: elegant, graceful, dignified. Usually. 😂 #birds #photography

A Great Egret stands in warm sunlight against a soft blue-gray background, its long orange bill pointing to the right. The feathers on its head and neck are dramatically fluffed and sticking straight up, giving it a windswept, bedhead appearance.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I startled this Green Heron as I was making my way through the wetlands this weekend, and he flew up into this tree and settled onto this branch ands stayed for several minutes—long enough for me to back off, get into position, and capture this beautiful little perch. 💚 #birds #photography

A Green Heron perched on a slender tree branch, partially framed by pale branches and green leaves. The bird faces left, showing its yellow eye, long pointed bill, streaked brown-and-white chest, and intricate dark wing feathers. A softly blurred background in muted greens and tans surrounds the bird, with ample open space to the right.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yesterday was UNREAL at the preserve. Storm clouds made for great lighting. 💛 Great Egret takes a drink after swallowing a 🐟. #birds #photography

A white egret shaking water off its bill, creating a splash of droplets in the dark water.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Those golden slippers. ✨ Snowy Egret moving through the shallows. #birds #photography

A Snowy Egret walks through shallow water, illuminated against a nearly black, warm-brown background. Its bright white plumage and delicate breeding plumes stand out dramatically in the light. One black leg is planted while the other stretches forward, its vivid yellow foot touching the water and kicking up a tiny splash. The egret faces right, with its black bill, yellow eye and golden-yellow facial skin sharply visible.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A pair of Mallards flying in synch low over the water, catching the last of the light. 🦆 #birds #photography

A female and male Mallard fly side by side from left to right, low over a pond. Both are caught mid-wingbeat with their iridescent blue wing patches visible. Warm light outlines their feathers against a dark, softly blurred background, while several ducks rest on the water below them.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A reddish egret, taking a moment, reflecting and casting a reflection in the still waters of a tidal lagoon. 🌊 #birds #photography

A reddish egret stands alone in shallow blue-gray water, leaning forward as it watches for prey. Its dark slate body and long rust-colored head and neck plumes are reflected in the water below, where gentle ripples stretch and soften the reflection.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Three Ruddy Turnstones. 🤍 Coming in for a landing above a mix of shorebirds. #birds #photography

Three ruddy turnstones fly above a large mixed flock of terns and shorebirds gathered in shallow water on a sandy beach, with bright turquoise Gulf water in the background.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Shorebird Rush hour at the beach. It was pretty amazing to be in the middle of it all. #birds #photography

A chaotic flock of coastal birds fills the sky, including several Brown Pelicans mixed with smaller gulls and terns. The birds cross the frame at different heights and angles, wings spread in every direction against a pale blue-gray sky.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I thought I was photographing a Snowy Egret. Nope. White-morph Reddish Egret. 🤍 I didn't realize what I had until I ran into a local photographer! #birds #photography

White-morph Reddish Egret captured mid-stride over shallow water, both feet lifted as its broad white wings sweep forward. Its long neck and dark bill point ahead, with windblown white head feathers and a blurred flock of shorebirds in the background.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Royal Tern (my first) banking over a tidal lagoon near Florida’s Gulf Coast. 🤍 #birds #photography

A Royal Tern banks sharply in flight over Florida’s Gulf Coast, its long white and gray wings nearly vertical and its tail feathers spread. Its bright orange-red bill stands out against the blue-gray sky, with turquoise Gulf water, pale sand and dune grass in the background.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Might be a Godwit though, Merlin gave a couple options perhaps a Marbled Godwit.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Pretty sure this is a Willet coming in for a landing among a few hundred of its closest friends on Florida’s Gulf Coast. 🤍 #birds #photography

What appears to be a brown-gray Willet descending with wings spread and legs extended toward a large mixed flock of terns and shorebirds gathered in shallow water and on a sandy Florida beach. Bright orange-billed Royal Terns fill the foreground, with turquoise Gulf water visible beyond the sand.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An immature White Ibis showing off its beautiful transitional plumage. #birds #photography

An immature White Ibis stands on a wooden boardwalk railing surrounded by lush green vegetation. The bird’s body faces away from the camera while it turns its streaked brown-and-white head back to look directly toward the viewer. Its partially spread wing reveals layered dark brown feathers interspersed with emerging white plumage, illuminated by warm sunlight against a deep green background.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There a problem here? 😒 Snowy Egret serving absolutely unnecessary levels of attitude. 😂 #birds #photography

A Snowy Egret stands in shallow water in warm golden light, its white breeding plumes sticking straight up from its head like a wild, spiky crown. The bird looks toward the camera with an intense, almost comically indignant expression against a soft olive-brown background.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📸 Two tiny Black-necked Stilt babies, just trying to navigate the pond while the mallards come in like bomber planes. 😂 They are so ridiculously squee. 🥹 #birds #photography

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Claude Monet-bokeh” — I’m stealing that. 😂 Thank you, Mark! Sometimes the scale vs the wee-ness of our feathered friends makes the picture.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That’s such a nice observation and compliment! Thank you. I’m glad it resonated with you.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m happy to hear you enjoyed it! Thank you for the wonderful compliment. 🙏🏻💙

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

'Swallowed Up.' A Northern Rough-winged Swallow, tiny against layers of trees and late-day light. Sometimes the bird doesn't need to fill the frame. 🌟 #birds #photography

A Northern Rough-winged Swallow flies through a vast, softly blurred landscape of trees. The tiny bird catches the light against layers of deep blue-green foliage and warm golden trees in the background, its wings spread downward in flight.

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nothing like subsidizing the meat and dairy industry!

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thanks! Honestly I’m surprised I got any pics they don’t stay put for long. Quick quick. 😌

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