Dirty Bird....got one?

[Dave Phillips]

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?

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Wow unbelievable !!! Not sure I will ever feel quite the same after seeing this dirty beak. Really incredible detail Dave !!!!

[Alfred Forns]

The bird has serious problems !!!!! Do think that is the dirtiest beak I've seen !!!!

[Jim Poor]

That's one dirty bird!

[Dave Phillips]

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]

That is unreal!!! Photographers around by you had to be praying for a big rain storm in June...not to big though!! ;)

[Christopher Hill]

Wow - reminds me of my three-year-old after a peanutbutter sandwich!

[Del Cockroft]

It makes you want to itch. Ugh!!!