herons and egrets

On one of my recent visits to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge I was fortunate enough to come across a cooperative…

I spent Saturday morning and into the early afternoon with my becoming-a-birder friend, Kerry, with whom I’ve birded before, birding…

Long ago I promised an extensive gallery of Boat-billed Herons Cochlearius cochlearius but I never got around to it.  Now…

It is not every day that a Great Blue Heron tolerates one’s presence from just across a small pond.  But…

The Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area in Hempstead, NY, a marvelous saltmarsh preserve on the south side of Lond Island,…

When I saw the post on the New York State listserv that a Cattle Egret, and sometimes two Cattle Egrets,…

Since last Sunday a rare-for-North America Western Reef Heron has been alternately frustrating and rewarding birders from the Empire State…

Last year a Western Reef Heron was spotted in Maine and New Hampshire, last week one was spotted in New…

A Green Heron at Five Rivers in Delmar, NY, was my trigger bird, so I was pleased the last time…

Eerie. Sinister. Unnaturally still. These are apt descriptions for those wondrous waders, the night herons. These stout birds of the…