April – May is a great time to spot VERY CUTE baby birds in the wetlands! ☀️ Two hungry Red-winged Blackbird fledglings beg mama to hurry back with more breakfast. Red-winged Blackbirds usually have a clutch of 2-4 eggs, which they incubate for about two weeks. But the chicks soon fledge and leave the nest […]
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It was springtime and romance was in the air in the wetlands 💚 But somehow this draft post of the dating and mating season got lost in my files! Better late than never!☀️ These lovebird Great Egrets eventually had chicks – the youngsters have long since fledged and moved on. ☀️
Fall is one of my favorite times of year in the wetlands. The weather is getting cooler and the humidity is gone. Everything is still mostly lush and green. But the Bald Cypress are beginning to look bare as their needle-like leaves turn rust-colored and fall to the ground (read more cool info about Bald […]
How much more beautiful can this lovely Great Egret make itself? 💚
. . . These two lovebirds had already found each other, and settled into the perfect home for the season.🌴💚 Watching over the neighborhood.
The Great Egret‘s bridal veil aigrettes and vivid green lores are unmistakable markers of courtship season 💚! Love is in the air~😌
I remember the lovely morning back in early May when I saw these two fellows. But I lost track of them over the busy birding spring, and just re-discovered them today on a VERY HOT August afternoon 🥵. The sweet bird above is one of the many adorable Great Egret fledglings growing up in our […]
The Great Egret hatchlings are getting bigger every day!! There are quite a few nests this year (yay!) so we’re seeing chicks at all different stages of growth, including the slightly older ones (top photos) and the more recently hatched (bottom photos).
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