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Good mates


Good mates
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Copyright: Nicki Mora (greychick) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 53 W: 0 N: 98] (585)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-06-30
Categories: Birds
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/200 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-06-30 1:08
Viewed: 380
Points: 0
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Well there is a bit of a cool story to this photo and although I wish the setting had been better and that annoying gorse wasnt there, I'm still pretty excited by this photo. See we not only learn about nature by looking up and posting the info, on a specific animal, we can also gain insight as we follow them around and observe them.

This has definatelty been true for me, because today, something I'd suspected turned out to be true.

I'd had a sneaky suspicion that my friends the Royal Spoonbill and the White heron, that live around here, were actually mates. That they purposely hung out together. Id seen them fly in accross the Cobden Lagoon and I'd seen them in the same sort vicinity, but never together. Friends had told me that they had seen 2 herons together and then realised one was a spoonbill.

But that was all I had to go on, until today, when I went to see if my friend the spoonbill was there and to my surprise saw a second white head pop up and look at me, right next to the spoonbill. So here is photographic evidence, that these two beautiful birds have some kind of bond, or at least like each others company. A lovely friendship, and although it might not be an award winning photo, it will always be one I love, for the story behind it.

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Interesting to see these two birds in regular company of each other. I wonder if there bond stems from the breeding colony at Waitaniroto Nature Reserve, where the Herons, Spoonbills and Little Shags all breed alongside one another. Good record shot.
Cheers
Elizabeth

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