2025-03-02: Water Birds

When I chose the ostrich images last week, I flagged quite a few other bird images to work through, and settled on a few water birds seen in Botswana on my most recent trip. All of these images were taken during the Okavango Delta portion of the trip.

I think this year finally needs to be the year that I get my act together and start my E-Bird list to track all the birds I’ve seen. Thankfully, my last two trips I’ve travelled with an incredibly organized, avid birder, so hopefully I can get some screenshots of her lists to get me started from the most recent trips. The rest will be scanning through my image catalogues; and to be honest, I can think of worse ways to pass the time. Who knows what images might jump out at me, wanting to be revisited.

The African jacana often appears to be walking on water, but is really just taking advantage of slightly submerged plants like these water lilies. They have incredibly large, wide spread feet to distribute their weight on sparse vegetation.
The distinctive profile of an African spoonbill. I love that the spoon shape of the bill is reflected in the water.
I’d have to go through a lot of photos to be sure, but I think this was my first sighting of a black heron. We were even lucky enough to see it in the umbrella posture that it uses to create shade to hunt.

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