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  1. 11-04-2025 Great White Egret landing.jpg

    11-04-2025 Great White Egret landing.jpg

    Great White Egret landing
  2. Great Egret in Flight

    Great Egret in Flight

  3. Great Egret

    Great Egret

  4. White heron

    White heron

  5. Great White Egret in the wind

    Great White Egret in the wind

    Great White Egret preening in strong winds
  6. Great White Egret

    Great White Egret

    Preening in reeds
  7. 01101001

    Kostrzyn river valley Natura 2000 site (Poland), 21.09 (mostly birds of prey)

    Habitat: river, meadows, forest 1. Not a kestrel, jizzwise. The lack of a prominent moustachial stripe (1.3) excludes the hobby and the peregrine. It flew high above the ground and made a few circles, so it was not a merlin. It had a brownish tinge on the upper wing feathers (1.4), so maybe it...
  8. Great White Egret

    Great White Egret

    Somerset Levels, UK
  9. Great White Egret

    Great White Egret

    OK, heres a tip people may find of use, I initially found it very hard to consistently capture detail in the wings of birds against a bight sky so I finally worked out if I pointed my camera at the sky in the direction of expected images and got the auto exposure, auto ISO and auto shutter...
  10. Another fly by over the yard

    Another fly by over the yard

    Great White Egret All feathers on Great Egrets are white. Their bills are yellowish-orange, and the legs black. . Great Egrets wade in shallow water (both fresh and salt) to hunt
  11. Great White Egret

    Great White Egret

  12. Great White Egret

    Great White Egret

    Roosting in large tree
  13. I'm the one in the middle

    I'm the one in the middle

    Great White Egret standing tall
  14. Thinking Hard

    Thinking Hard

    Great White Egret The pristinely white Great Egret gets even more dressed up for the breeding season. A patch of skin on its face turns neon green, and long plumes grow from its back.
  15. Well focused upon...

    Well focused upon...

    ..a small fish jumping up and down in the water. Great Egrets wade in shallow water (both fresh and salt) to hunt fish, frogs, and other small aquatic animals. They typically stand still and watch for unsuspecting prey to pass by. Then, with startling speed, the egrets strike with a jab of their...
  16. Soaking up some sun

    Soaking up some sun

    Great White Egret
  17. An Egret Greeting

    An Egret Greeting

    All feathers on Great Egrets are white. Their bills are yellowish-orange, and the legs black.
  18. Great White Egret

    Great White Egret

    I spent three hours perched half way up a big willow tree yesterday. It was swaying considerably in the wind, and I was peering through my viewfinder on full zoom at a smaller willow some 100m away across the water, in which a Night Heron had been sighted perching for several hours each evening...
  19. 150- Casmerodius albus Great White Egret- 18 décembre 2019.jpg

    150- Casmerodius albus Great White Egret- 18 décembre 2019.jpg

    Grande Aigrette - Casmerodius albus - Great White Egret
  20. Great Egret

    Great Egret

    Great Egret
  21. Great White Egret 2-1.jpg

    Great White Egret 2-1.jpg

  22. Great White Egret

    Great White Egret

  23. Fly by

    Fly by

    This is the Egret I was focusing on when the Green Heron walked by under me.
  24. Envy

    Envy

  25. On Watch

    On Watch

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