Great Egret

Its the Feet

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

Nothing on two legs stalks through brush more silently than the Great Egret. It suspends its weight effortlessly on one

The north bank of the Schoolhouse Creek channel seems to be a kind of field hospital for birds in trouble.

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

The Great Egret and the Snowy Egret often keep company. Here’s such a pair on a quiet sunny morning on