This small Snowy came out of nowhere. I was lucky to get any shots at all.
I was on a dike road and I’m guessing he was at the marsh edge when I walked by. I never did see him down there.
ACE Basin, South Carolina.
Snowy Egret Sneaking Past
Category Archives: Egret
Solitary Egret
This is another photograph that takes advantage of a fall background. The branch here is on a dead tree situated on a small marsh island. At the proper angle everything behind a bird is a far distance.
Photographed at Donnelley WMA, ACE Basin, South Carolina.
A Marsh Gathering
From my ‘To Do’ files.
Just about all the locals were represented in this one shot. Getting them all in a single image is unusual. There’s always one who starts trouble.
ACE Basin, South Carolina.
Book Ends, Heron And Egret
Here a photograph I could not have have taken a few weeks ago, the fall weather has pushed down the high grasses. Now the old wooden structures can be seen. They may have been used to dry nets or as a duck blind years ago when this was still private plantation lands.
Both the Great Blue and Egret moved around on the old posts catching the first rays of morning sun.
In a few weeks all these reeds and grasses will become a dull brown, but for now everything is golden.
These were some of the last photographs of the year in these marshes. Rangers close the dike roads, tens of thousands of acres, each winter to protect the habitat and migrating birds.
Bear Island WMA, South Carolina.
Chasing Dinner, Low Tide
Low tide and tiny minnows. While they may be small there is plenty of them.
In some of these photographs you can see the fish jumping from the water.
This Snowy Egret chased the school of fish back and forth in the shallows.
Above the Egret has caught a small minnow. OK, a very small minnow.
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Chasing Dinner, Low Tide
Chasing Dinner, Low Tide
Chasing Dinner, Low Tide
Chasing Dinner, Low Tide
Chasing Dinner, Low Tide
A Snowy Egret
Around the Lowcountry you can’t go too many places and not see the Snowy Egret. If there is water and a few fish there is also a Snowy.
While they are a beautiful bird it’s their ‘personality’ that endears them to people.
They can seem arrogant, pushy, and always argumentative.
In short, a bird with an attitude.
Enthusiasm, Egret
He may not have caught anything but he didn’t hold anything back either.
Great Egret Being Watched
This was a nice and simple landscape when I took. Nothing dramatic, an Egret fishing in a large marsh.
However it’s important to look all around out there.
Like the Alligator a bit further along the waters edge…sitting and watching.
