She's Back - I'm Gone

Seems to be the way with the egrets around here! Went over to the Corps Park this afternoon to check on the flooding (pretty substantial) and found this guy - he also found me!

[Islandgirl]

Magnificent bird and great timing!

[sarah]

Fantastic capture ! I can never get close to them either -where are you in Arkansas-we live on Grand Lake -which is hour east of Tulsa hour south of Joplin MO -substantial flooding here too

[Jane Pittenger]

Beautiful wing spread. Was the wind bad too?

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Beautiful flight shot- you would not expect such long legs to look so graceful in flight but they do. Great timing!

[Milanie]

@samae I'm 2 hours east of Tulsa - just across the Arkansas/Oklahoma line - Not that far from all the excitement at the Kerr Lock & Dam today! We're right on the Arkansas River.

[Milanie]

@jgpittenger Fairly windy and such muddy muddy water! The stuff floating down river was huge while I was trying to catch him.

[Linda Godwin]

They are elegant birds and fun to photograph.

[Lou Ann]

A lovely capture.

[Sand Lily]

Beautiful shot!

[KWind]

Wow... just beautiful!

[Kim]

Beautiful image of the egret in flight! Saw the video of the barges hitting the dam.

[sarah]

@milaniet oh I saw that !!pretty scary —we aren’t too far away from one another

[amyK]

Nice capture of take-off

[Rick]

Great capture. Hope the flooding doesn't effect you. That's been some really bad weather.

[Milanie]

@genealogygenie Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas sure don't need any more rain! They're still worrying about the Tulsa forecast and what it might send on down. Our flood stage is 22' - they're saying it will crest at 42' Saturday night without any more rain.

[gloria jones]

Excellent action shot and details

[Monique]

Beautiful shot

[Diana]

A fabulous BIF, love the wingspan.

[Joanna kate]

Beautiful detail in that wingspan

[KoalaGardens🐨]

super capture!

[Casablanca]

Ha ha, your title made me laugh! Super moment to capture

[Denise Wood]

Terrific :)

[Joan Robillard]

Fabulous

[Karly]

He's so very elegant. I hope you're staying safe?

[Jean]

So beautiful and graceful! Wonderful capture.

[haskar]

Well caught.

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Wonderful shot

[Faye Turner]

Lovely capture of her.

[Lynne]

Great capture. And not an easy one.

[Janet B.]

What an elegant bird...wonderful in-flight capture!