Water Birds

We have been pretty spoiled getting to have Rob's parents less than an hour away for a whole month.  They are getting ready to head back to the frozen north, but we spent a very nice morning in the Everglades with them yesterday.  There were tons of birds out and plenty of alligators, plus it was in the 60s!

I like water birds.  I think I like them more than birds like blue jays and mocking birds.  I really don't know why I like them.  In addition to these I've posted we saw the great blue heron, the little blue heron, a white heron, a purple gallinule, and some moorhens.

Comorant - note the hooked beak - their trademark.

The birds were really comfortable with all the tourists!

Anhinga - a bird I just don't see how you can't like.  I've never seen one so close so I didn't know their beaks were so sharp.

Baby anhingas :)  awe!!

Roseate Spoonbill!!!  I've never seen one at this location before yesterday.

Terrible picture, but you can see the spooned bill. 

And they weren't cute...but there were some non-water birds showing off their feathers too.  I wasn't interested in taking their picture!