April 26, 2021

I am an immature White Ibis

My beauty has inspired songs by many composers

With my long lithe legs, and bright orange beak

I can make the boy birds loose their composure. 

(Ok, that's a terrible rhyme, but in my defense, when I saw how this bird was posed, I thought it looked like one of those scenes from the old movies where the woman hitchhiker shows some leg to get a ride!)

Location: Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, Bird's Impoundment Trail

Sources: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Eudocimus_albus/

Photo and text © 2021 Dee Fairbanks Simpson