Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Photo Study Of Dancing Egrets At Bombay Hook NWR, June 6th, 2010
We went to Bombay Hook And Port Mahon Ditch yesterday and saw lots of birds:
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Canada Goose |
Black Vulture |
Great Black-backed Gull |
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Mallard |
Turkey Vulture |
Forster's Tern |
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Northern Bobwhite |
Osprey |
Mourning Dove |
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Double-crested Cormorant |
Bald Eagle |
Eastern Phoebe |
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Great Blue Heron (23) |
Semipalmated Plover |
Eastern Kingbird |
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Great Egret (73) |
Willet |
Fish Crow |
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Snowy Egret (141) |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Purple Martin |
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Glossy Ibis (> 200) |
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
Tree Swallow |
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Green Heron |
Laughing Gull |
American Robin |
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Black-crowned Night Heron |
Herring Gull |
Northern Mockingbird |
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European Starling |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Common Yellowthroat |
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Chipping Sparrow |
Song Sparrow |
Northern Cardinal |
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Indigo Bunting |
Red-winged Blackbird |
Boat-tailed Grackle |
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Common Grackle |
Orchard Oriole |
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However, there were some surprises, in particular, the number of wading birds. There were 141 Snowy Egrets, 73 Great Egrets and well over 200 Glossy Ibises. Perhaps many of them came in to feed from the nearby Pea Patch Island Rookery. Pea Peach Island is home to approximately 2000-2500 pairs of nine different nesting species of wading birds and is one of the larger heronries on the Atlantic Coast north of Florida.
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Blue Heron
Great
Egret
Snowy
Egret
In any event, while I did photograph many of the birds there, I decided to just show some of the egrets and a couple of herons on this webpage. These birds were so graceful bouncing around in either courtship display and/or feeding that I felt like we were at the ballet.
Great Egret
Courtship
Choreography By George Balanchine
Please click on either the thumbnails or the captions below to see a larger image...thanks
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Howard B. Eskin 2010 
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