Great Egret

Springtime Discovery

Park visitor Parissa K. Salimian writes My boyfriend, Mike, and I are fans and regulars of the park. We only

As if posing for a postcard, this Great Egret stalked the hill on the northwest corner of the park, with

Each of the two egret species we see most commonly in the park — the Great and the Snowy —

This Great Egret had dined recently. When hunting in water, the bird repeatedly dips its beak after finishing a meal.

I’ve been looking at the Great Egret all wrong. Every time I see one, I focus on the head. That

The Great Egret likes creatures of the water. It likes creatures of the earth. So why not creatures of the

This is, I believe, the same Great Egret I saw on October 25. It’s a large, magnificent specimen. It stood

In a recent post I promised to showcase a Great Egret. I didn’t have a current bird of that species

A Great Egret hunting in shallow water strikes out about five times out of six, in my observation. Here, a

A Great Egret — sometimes two — has been hunting in the Nature Preserve on the north side of the

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