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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Look for a flash of white along coasts and shorelines to locate a great egret. Long-legged like a heron, the great egret’s all-white feathers and its yellow bill tend to make it an easy spot in its ...

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 ...

As Arkansas birders in general enjoy their annual season of eagle-watching hikes and cruises, a lucky few are thinking back to a very different and even larger bird that unexpectedly staged its own ...

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 ...