In between thunderstorms yesterday, I paddled through the lower Humber River & marshes. There are at least 3, and quite possibly 6 or more Great Egrets there. (I saw up to 3 at once in 2 different marshes and a single bird in another.)
This was a dominant (male?) who chased another egret out of the tree.
(Or maybe he just wanted to be the one to get his picture taken.)
Birder watching: this one was keeping an eye on me from behind the swamp milkweed.
Great Blue Herons are less common there. They look downright stocky compared to the egrets.
There's a small cormorant colony in one of the marshes. I'm not sure how the one in the lower left managed to hang himself :?
Ring-billed Gulls look so much more dignified when they're not eating garbage in a parking lot!
This painted Turtle was sharing a log with a Blue Heron.
(Higher resolution images are on
Flickr)
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