What Happened to Our Habitat?

Year after year, I’ve watched Olive and Orlando arrive from the south, build their big nest and raise a new … More

Gracie Glides Into the Wind

Gracie is a gracious Great Egret who greets me on the cove around midday. .. I try to photograph my … More

In our last post of Eglantine, she was launching, so it’s naturally time for her to… FLY AGAIN! You go, … More

“First I must blow the fairy dust on you,” says Peter, and the Darling children shout out lovely thoughts—Fishing! Hopscotch! … More

Have to admire Eglantine for finding what looks like a flipping fish in a marsh pool so shallow it barely … More

Simply watching a Great Egret fly from one salt marsh pond to the next can be entrancing… The wings beat … More

Moments after her Springtime debut, Eglantine allows another glimpse of her wonderful wings and legs… And as I develop this … More

Today our Great Egret is apparently back from wintering in the south lands —in diaphanous spring plumage, no less. Take … More

And here’s our Marsh Dancing finalist, Edgar the Snowy Egret! Kind of flying while skating across the water, he easily … More

This Avian Marsh Dancing exhibition features our favorite Snowy Egrets, Edgar and Edith, playing their favorite pursuit game. Watching the … More