Dark Morphed Reddish Egret Portrait - Original Oil Painting- Framed Coastal Art Sometimes when they nap

Sometimes when they nap

to striking black-and-white plumage

The reason I assume its a female

They’ve learned to adapt to the coastal development often nesting on dredge spoil islands

I was fortunate the summer of 2020 to have a pair lay their eggs in my backyard

Dark Morphed Reddish Egret Portrait - Original Oil Painting- Framed Coastal Art Sometimes when they napDark Morphed Reddish Egrets are colorful characters, both fishing style and physically. They are typical of most egret appearance except you can have DarkMorphed and White Morphed. They have wild crazy hair, shaggy looking neck and stunning greyish white eyes In breeding plumage their bill gets a pink base. The Reddish Egret is on the endangered species list as they did not repopulated as well from the plume hunters of the 1800s. This one was spotted