Great Egret

This might not be the most dramatic event in a bird’s life or in a nature watcher’s experience. But, while

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

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

Egrets and herons mostly strike out when they pounce, in my observation.  But this Great Egret, working the mudflats at

The Great Egret — as you can see in earlier posts on this blog — can spear and devour both

Sometimes birds act as if they want their portraits taken.  That was the case with this Great Egret, who flew