A male Red-bellied Woodpecker floofing his noggin feathers.
A male Wood Duck in the midst of a preening session. Right now the males are molting and going into their eclipse plumage, which has subdued colors.
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A Great Egret flying over the Great Blue Heron rookery. Interestingly, there was a Great Egret doing a courtship dance in one of the nests last week. When I started visiting the rookery 10 years ago there were many Great Egret nests along with the Great Blue Heron nests.
A male Baltimore Oriole flying across the nature path to chase away a Blue Jay that has gotten too close to the nest.
I like how it looks like this Green Heron took a big bite out of this lily pad. The heron wasn't really interested in greens but rather in the tiny fish that were swimming in the shallow waters.
Spotted across the lake - a fawn on the Great Blue Heron rookery island.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography
Jocelyn Anderson Photography
Jocelyn Anderson Photography
Jocelyn Anderson Photography
A Cedar Waxwing pausing for a moment before going back to hunting berries.
A female Downy Woodpecker perches on a cattail reed. The rusty coloring around her beak and her chest is staining from tannins in tree bark.
An American Red Squirrel gathers up nesting material. There are have been lots of young American Red Squirrels around lately, they are cute and feisty little fuzzies.
Now there are zero Great Egrets nests. As to why, I'm not sure. As a guess, because Great Blue Herons are bigger, it could be the rookery became more popular with them and they took over the space.
