Heron? Egret?
Great, Blue, Snowy, Heron, Egret — it can get confusing. Why is the blue one a heron and the white
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Great Egret
Flight Don’t Fight
The Great Egret has the size and the weapons to gouge a charging dog’s eyes out. But here it chose
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Springtime Discovery
Park visitor Parissa K. Salimian writes My boyfriend, Mike, and I are fans and regulars of the park. We only
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Another Postcard
As if posing for a postcard, this Great Egret stalked the hill on the northwest corner of the park, with
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Egrets Fishing
Each of the two egret species we see most commonly in the park — the Great and the Snowy —
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Its the Feet
I’ve been looking at the Great Egret all wrong. Every time I see one, I focus on the head. That
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Finch for Breakfast?
The Great Egret likes creatures of the water. It likes creatures of the earth. So why not creatures of the
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Great Balance
This is, I believe, the same Great Egret I saw on October 25. It’s a large, magnificent specimen. It stood
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The Great is Back
In a recent post I promised to showcase a Great Egret. I didn’t have a current bird of that species
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