snowy egret

11
Dec

Sabine National Wildlife Refuge near Hackberry Louisiana

Cleon and I spent an exhilarating morning at Sabine National Wildlife Refuge.  It was a beautiful, brisk day.  When we were there, the temperature ranged from 41°-50°F, the morning went from cloudy to partly cloudy, and the wind ranged from 5-10mph.  We took a wonderful cement sidewalk/boardwalk through the marsh which included an elevated viewing […]

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22
Nov

Great Egret, Snowy Egret, and Tricolored Heron

As I wrote in my previous blogs, it was not the best birding from the beaches and shorelines around Charleston, SC, but we did see these three birds.  The Great Egret is one of the birds that is pushing its range northward a bit.  We now have more of them here in central Illinois in […]

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