The great egrets are mostly gone from the marsh out back now, but for a few stragglers that visit now and again. They first showed up around April 2, and most stayed for a couple of weeks. Their numbers peaked at twenty-one on April 7th (about two-thirds juveniles), all in about a quarter of an acre. Our neighbors Johnny and Annie, who have been here eleven years, had never seen a whole colony visiting.
Here’s one shot of a juvenile with the rented lens I used (Canon 100-400mm and 1.4 Extender); it was perched on top of a telephone pole some twenty yards out.
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I’m a Branford resident working on the Old Saybrook shoreline this summer, and witnessed these lovely brown and black long-beaked birds (maybe 15-20 in total) on the marsh feeding in the grasses along rte 154 this past Friday. Do you possibly know what they are/were?
Also, I am a graphic artist—–If you are a phototgrapher, might you be willing to let me use your photos to do drawings from? If you look at my web-site you can see my work. There are no birds there, because I don’t use photos from others to do my work…..
Thanks!
Gretchen
Hi Gretchen – thanks for the note, responded to your email address.