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common milkweed, duck, great-tailed grackle, honeysuckle, milkweed, postaday, song sparrow, yellow-crowned night heron
The Ocean City Welcome Center is on the same level as the bridge linking Ocean City to Somers Point, NJ. After photographing the rookery from street level, I followed a series of steps to go down under the bridge and look at the rookery at ground level. It was darker down there and I did not have a tripod, so all the shots below are handheld.
Once at ground level, I noticed some wild flowers growing luxuriously in the sunlight from above.
Right below the bridge was a small pond of accumulated rain water that the herons, ibises and ducks seemed to enjoy.
On the other side of the pond another heron was also quenching its thirst.
There were also ibises and ducks, but I did not have a wide-angle lens to photograph all of them at one time.