Oh what a GREAT reply!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boat-Tailed Grackle?

Looks like a baby Great Egret, so I think you did the best thing you could when putting it in reeds near water and calling it in.

Brings to mind a movie, but no, there are 4 of them, and they are round. Oh. well.

I love water reflection shots, especially when they add meaning like this "3".

That last one has the longest beak I ever saw on a warbler. . .
The first one is priceless.

And when you touched the TV, well maybe just before you touched it, there was this spark. . .

Why, the railroad, obviously.

Hi from Central Florida, Y'All. I've been reading/viewing for a couple of weeks, and finally decided to stick a toe or two in. I do natural light photography nearly exclusively, with maybe a fill-flash here and there. I am deeply into environmental matters, doing graphics for a couple of groups that are trying very hard. There have been a couple of times when I had to restrain myself - for example "Snowy Egrets have yellow boots". Great egrets are black all the way top their toes. And I love animals and sunrises (being a morning person). Guess which one I call "We Clean Up, OK". And then there is a Snowy Egret showing off his canard feathers. Carrier-based fighters have them too, modeled on birds'. And what can be said of cats? They are endlessly fun to shoot.

I went with the local Audubon group to the Orlando Wetlands Park where we took like big golf carts around the place. I shot birds on the wing hand held in a moving cart with a 500 mm zoom at a 500th, f 8 and they came out perfectly as anything. Tamron 200-500 and a Canon 5DS.