Egrets Fishing
Snowy Egret (Egretta thule)
All photos © 2019 Paul Sikorski
Great Egret catching a small fish.
A Snowy Egret moving around the saltmarsh fishing. Photographed in the spring.
Great Egret fishing in a salt marsh.
Great Egret (Ardea alba ) goes after a fish which it did catch.
This Snowy Egret caught an eel and because the eel was squirming, the egret couldn't get the eel into a position to swallow it. Tomorrow I'll post an image showing what happened next.
This is the follow-on to yesterday's photo. The Snowy Egret started flipping the eel into the air. In this photo, the egret caught the eel lengthwise in its beak and started gulping it down.
Snowy Egret Balance and Reflection
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
A Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) dives for a fish.
A Great Egret gulps down a very small fish.
Snowy Egret
Great Egret Fishing Reflection
A Great Egret fishing along a mudflat in a salt marsh, gulps down a small fish.
I spent about a half an hour watching two Great Egrets (Ardea herodias) fishing. Neither egret was having much luck. I thought the Egret's expression in this photo told the story.