little blue heron – The Jersey Birder

At last, an egret

A great egret stands on a log in a pond, looking into the water for something to eat.

For several weeks, I’d been puzzled that I had yet to log a sighting of an egret in 2025. Great egrets usually show up in spring in these parts, but here we are halfway through summer and I’d yet to see one. I’d been seeing reports of great egrets and a little blue heron atContinue reading “At last, an egret”

A fine morning at Hamilton Veterans Park

For the past several days, I’d been seeing e-Bird reports of snowy egrets and a little blue heron hanging around Veterans Park in Hamilton. When I woke up this morning, I figured it was high time I checked them out. Sure enough, the little blue heron was staying close to a larger snowy egret, asContinue reading “A fine morning at Hamilton Veterans Park”