Sunsets at EBF

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I have gone at least half a dozen times to the Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge in late afternoon to try and capture a good sunset. Until now, nothing worked. Either the clouds were not there, or the colors unimpressive, or the sun simply kept itself hidden.

Yesterday, I finally managed to take the following shots. Please let me know which one you like. As usual, please click on each image to view it in full size.

EBF sunset #1. The partial disk you see is the setting sun.

EBF sunset #2

EBF sunset #3

EBF sunset #4

 

It’s Cold, Even for Egrets

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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

 

Canada Geese

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Three Canada Geese flying by at the Edwin B. Forsythe wildlife refuge in Brigantine, NJ, in late February of this year (2012).

Canadian Geese