It was near the beginning of October, we looked out and saw four Roseate Spoonbill birds hanging around on the far side of our pond. These spoonbills are members of the Ibis family of herons and it's obvious seeing them hanging around with the Ibis that they are cousins, similar head and body shape. Both versions have some pretty interesting beak formations. While our white Ibis have beautiful blue eyes the Rosy's have a bright red-orange eye color.
We had hoped the beautiful reddish hued birds might stop by again but it was a passing single day visit. We're guessing they're migrating to warmer, more southern Florida locations to spend their winter.
I initially shot some photos with my Canon 24-105 zoom, then ran inside and switched to the Sigma 150-650 zoom to get some closer pictures. The beautiful birds seemed to be not too worried about me working my way over closer to them to get a better look.
