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Dave Phillips
03-03-2008, 07:14 PM
I have several times this week read: "might clean up that dirty beak/bill....." and it got me
to thinking of this yellow crown night heron I photographed last June. Dirtiest bird I ever did see.
This is cropped real tight to max pano allowed just to show the crusty mud.

Got a "dirty bird" you can share?
http://i29.tinypic.com/2aalw15.jpg

Judy Lynn Malloch
03-03-2008, 07:22 PM
Wow unbelievable !!! Not sure I will ever feel quite the same after seeing this dirty beak. <smile > Really incredible detail Dave !!!!

Alfred Forns
03-03-2008, 07:36 PM
The bird has serious problems !!!!! Do think that is the dirtiest beak I've seen !!!!

Jim Poor
03-03-2008, 08:03 PM
That's one dirty bird!

Dave Phillips
03-03-2008, 08:14 PM
there may be an unknown story about all this crusty mud.
This is a YCNH that I saw around one lake road over a month or so, He had a neck injury
and very mangled feathering on his upper body. May have been hit by a car and
laid in some muddy area to recover. Never did fly much to an evening perch like the others.
But by season's end, he was doing much better and got somewhat cleaner

George DeCamp
03-03-2008, 08:44 PM
That is unreal!!! Photographers around by you had to be praying for a big rain storm in June...not to big though!! ;)

Christopher Hill
03-05-2008, 03:36 PM
Wow - reminds me of my three-year-old after a peanutbutter sandwich!

Del Cockroft
03-11-2008, 06:46 AM
It makes you want to itch. Ugh!!!