Great Egret

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

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

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

Summer is here. The park is fading from green to brown. The masses of migrating shore and water birds have

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