There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

I was very fortunate to grow up on a good-sized muddy lake not far from where I'm sitting. There, I could watch muskrats, catch sunfish, and observe a particular great blue heron. Every spring we ...

You’ll almost always spot a few egrets along the south bank of the Calaveras River near Stockton Golf and Country Club. But Ward Downs, a retired English teacher who is interested in birds, couldn’t ...

Identification books on British birds dating back a few decades seldom trouble themselves with the little egret. Into the 1980s, the chances of spotting its snow-white outline, perhaps hunched and ...

11 x 23 inches / 27 x 58 cm PAPER SIZE: 12 x 25 inches / 30 x 63 cm ...

The great egret, Ardea alba, is a tall and stately bird, graceful in flight, deliberate and stealthy when hunting. It is a magnificent sight and entertaining to watch, making it a favorite with ...

I recently took a short walk down my backyard hill to take my grandchildren fishing on one of the stone-arched bridges at Silver Lake. As we got across the road and I could see the first bridge ...

When was the last time you saw a really big bird up close in the wild? A week ago, I was driving across the Texas coastal plain on a gloomy, overcast day. An intermittent rain spattered the windshield ...