Donnelly WMA, Colleton Co., SC, May 17, 2013
There were about 200 spoonbills scattered through the marsh
This record gleaned from field journals I kept between 1968 and 2002. The first 6500+ records I posted on iNat had photo documentation, but now I am posting these records which do not have photos just to provide the data point for the species, date, and location as best as I can for the historical record. I will also add a number to represent the approximate number of individuals of this species I recorded on the given day if more than one.
This record gleaned from field journals I kept between 1968 and 2002. The first 6500+ records I posted on iNat had photo documentation, but now I am posting these records which do not have photos just to provide the data point for the species and location as best as I can for the historical record. I will also add a number to represent the approximate number of individuals of this species I recorded on the given day if more than one. My lifer Roseate Spoonbill.
Rather uncommon this far north of Florida, was feeding in shallow freshwater impoundment in the 8,000-acre Donnelley state wildfife management area.
bad shot but it was pretty distant
Roseate Spoonbill
Ajaia ajaja
pale, winter plumage, in flight
Aransas NWR,
Aransas Co., Texas
20 February 2010
Roseate Spoonbill
Ajaia ajaja
with Willets
Ding Darling NWR, Sanibel,
Lee Co., Florida
30 December 2007
Roseate Spoonbill
Ajaia ajaja
at nesting colony
High Island, Galveston Co., Texas
20 March 2004
Roseate Spoonbill
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, US
Roseate Spoonbill
St Martin Parish, Louisiana, US
Roseate Spoonbill
High Island, Texas
13 April 2001
breeding colony
Roseate Spoonbill
High Island, Texas
7 Apr 1999
Breeding colony of spoonbills
Roseate Spoonbill
Aransas Pass, Texas
14 Sep 2000
Snowy Egret on the left
Roseate Spoonbills (3)
Red Bluff Reservoir
14 Aug 1996
Roseate Spoonbills are known to wander well inland in the late summer and fall, yet this group of three immature bird in west Texas, near New Mexico, were still a surprise.
The 1st shot is cropped to the birds, the 2nd shot shows the scene from as close as we could get at the time with a 500mm lens.
Roseate Spoonbills
West Galveston Island, Texas
12 Sep 1999
Roseate Spoonbill
Shamrock Island,
Nueces Co., Texas
This is a small uninhabited and protected island set aside as a nesting area for birds. It has been more than 20 years since I took this shot but I still have fond memories of the sun lighting up the spoonbills overhead as they passed back and forth.
Roseate Spoonbill
Austin, Texas
8 Sep 1990
spoonbills sometimes wander inland in the late summer and fall and records at Austin or other inland location are fairly routine. This is an immature bird.
