I was very fortunate to grow up on a good-sized muddy lake not far from where I'm sitting. There, I could watch muskrats, catch sunfish, and observe a particular great blue heron. Every spring we ...

Laura Koubsky sent photos of a great egret and a tricolored heron feeding and resting on Long Creek. The tricolored heron, with a white stripe down the middle of its neck and belly, is much smaller ...

The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...

A great egret forages for food. Note the dark black legs that make identification easy. A white great blue heron would have yellow legs. (Bill Danielson) During the school year, I am trapped inside ...

Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

The great egrets are in their wedding gowns on the lake at Hunt Club Forest, reports Joellyn Cohen, who sent a photo of an elegantly feathered egret taken by her husband, Robert Seemueller. An osprey ...

We in southern Minnesota often see a dozen to two (or even more) of the majestic great egrets together this time of year and into September. They stand together like statues along the edges of lakes, ...

An unprecedented number of great egrets — large, white wading birds from the South — have descended upon Lake Ontelaunee within the past week. Rudy Keller of District Township, who compiles the Berks ...