On a Sunday more than a week ago, at the Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge it was very windy and cold. As I drove by I saw a dozen egrets standing up on a bank of the marshes.
Cold egrets
There were snowy egrets, like this one.
Snowy Egret
and great egrets, bigger but just as intimidated by the freezing wind chill.
Great Egret
Great Egret
A younger one ignored the cold and was actually trying to fish, twisting and slipping on the mud.
Great Egret fishing
Advertisements
Outstanding photos Hien, and you expressed the coldness remarkably.
LikeLike
Don’t they look like people shivering under their coats? 🙂
LikeLike
Still cold…. Wonderful post! Snowy Egret, what a beauty!!!
LikeLike
Still cold, and now too much water. Lots of flooding today.
LikeLike
Flooding is aweful. We have not had a drop of rain for weeks…
LikeLike
That’s too bad. We have so much water here. If only it could be shipped or pipelined to your area.
LikeLike
Wonderful – saw one on a walk near the coast
LikeLike
Did you take a picture of the one you saw?
LikeLike
Gosh, what BEAUTIFUL birds, Hien ! Perhaps you were lucky to see them in the cold wind, as they were fluffing up their gorgeous feathers !
LikeLike
M.R., actually the egrets can be seen on most of the days I’ve been to the Refuge. However, they are usually fishing or flying around, and not standing with their backs turned against the wind like this bunch. It was cold, and I took these photos from the comparative warmth of my car. 🙂
LikeLike
My husband spent a few months setting himself a kind of challenge: to see how good a picture he could get while inside the car. 🙂 I don’t think he ever got one of any wildlife, though …
LikeLike
The Snowy and Great Egrets are amazing. So beautiful and fantastic photos!
LikeLike
Thank you Sue!
LikeLike