@flmmkch Are you sure of your identification - this looks more like an #egret than a #crane (the white body feathers, the long 'fishing spear' black bill and the eyes are all egret like).
The salt marsh of Murrell's Inlet
Huntington Beach State Park, SC
Probably summer 2004.
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Glasswater Reflection

This snowy egret (Egretta thula) stood poised in a quiet tidal pool in Gulfport, Mississippi, watching for its next meal.

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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #LivingLandscape, a single bird as part of a wider natural scene. A egret standing on the bluff of Moonstone Beach in Cambria, California. #ECK #Cambria #MoonstoneBeach #Egret #WestCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekForWater
@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheGathering When this flock took off they were intermediate egrets, but if they ever land they'll be plumed egrets, such are the vagaries of taxonomists. #photography #birds #egret #flock #ECK
@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheGathering Multiple flocks taking off together: egrets, spoonbills, ibis #photography #birds #egret #ibis #spoonbill #flock #ECK