This design is a pencil sketch taken from observation on the estuary near my home – the Crookhaven River in the Shaolhaven region of New South Wales, Australia.
Royal Spoonbills are to be find in our area for most of the year – apart from those times when the Australian inland has plentiful rainfall and the spoonbills join the rush to stake a claim in the temporarily abundant wetlands.
These two birds were scolding some egrets that came too close.