We all know the Snowy Egret (we are having a break today from Snowy Owls 🙂 has yellow feet…so much so that, in birding circles, we often call the bird “golden slippers”…but that does not mean we see the slippers often. In fact we rarely get to see them…and when we do it is generally no more than a diagnostic glimpse. Often they are buried in and/or coated with mud. Generally they are below water. Disguised or hidden. Hard to see. So this shot of a Snowy, a wild bird on the grounds of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, is special…both for the clear sight of the Golden slippers and for the active posture of the bird as it strides across the little ornamental brook.

Olympus OM-D E-M10 with 75-300mm zoom. 328mm equivalent. ISO 400 @ 1/800th @ f5.8. Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.