# @natgeo on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CLXjFZ4j-hG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11686154-natgeo-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/1d9112409a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-02-16T21:19:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photos by TimLaman / A scarlet Ibis—on the mudflats at low tide in the Orinoco River Delta, Venezuela—comes in for a landing. As I work through my archive of bird photography from around the world for a book project, I came across these images from a 2011 Nat Geo trip. They brought back memories of how I struggled to get close to the birds; I found the behind-the-scenes image of the blind I contrived so I could approach  without disturbing them. It was a small platform on an inner tube that I pushed across the mudflats slowly. Yes, I was up to my knees in mud for hours. But the plan worked.  I got the shots, and my blind floated so that when the tide came in I got picked up by my assistants in a boat. All in a day's work for Nat Geo!

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#mud #scarletibis #ibis #birds #venezuela

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