My parents are down on Sanibel Island, Florida for the week.  Since they bought a house there they have become really into bird watching. I wrote in my second response paper about my family’s bird watching experiences on the beach and the impact that naming has had on my family. To follow up with my response paper, yesterday while my parents were sitting on the beach and they sent me a couple of pictures of the different egrets they saw (the pictures are taken on an IPhone).

This is a picture of a great egret:

This is a picture of a snowy egret (if it’s feet weren’t in the water you would be able to identify it by its yellow feet):

This is a picture of an assortment of birds near the water: