This is the ‘in between’ season for wildlife in the Lowcountry. The bigger birds, like Great Blues, Eagles, and other raptors, are considering or slowly starting nesting.
For us this time means the marshes have active feeding, the swamps some birds shopping the best nest sites. These Herons are near the rivers, marshes, but rookeries are a mile or two in the nearby swamps.
In short something should be around to photograph.
Great shots! I love their intense gaze. We get to see these classy visitors on the Southernmost Canadian prairies in the Spring/Summer — they hide away in quiet marshlands, are relatively shy, and you have to know where to find them. Majestic birds.
Thank you. They are surprisingly good a living in cold weather areas. We had some year round in New England. They were shy there also. Here some are shy, others not.