Great Egret

This fellow was perched on the edge of the small channel that still runs through the right-hand pool. The water levels were pretty low on both sides.

Great Blue

It was a lovely day to be outside:

A beautiful day at Great Meadows

On the way out we saw some frogs – here’s the bigger one:

Frog at Great Meadows

and we also saw a turtle:

Turtle at Great Meadows

This one just caught a fish, we could see it flopping around in his beak:

And this one is moving to another spot. Great Blues in flight are just amazing, I took a whole series of them.

The Red-winged Blackbirds are another common species. I really wanted a picture of one in flight, with both the shoulder patches showing, but that’s a hard picture to get. This guy posed by the path for a long time:

This (unladen) Tree swallow came and sat next to the Blackbird.

A nice spring morning with good company.

Technology

Pictures were taken with my Canon S3IS, handheld. The sun tends to wash out the S3 viewfinder, so some of these were point-pray-and-shoot. Most of the Great Blue pictures were taken at extreme zoom and then cropped, which is why they’re not perfectly focused.