One of the 56 Great Egrets that I found in the Raymond Pool on this morning. There were so many Egrets all fishing in the same corner of the pool that they would fish for a few minutes then have to take flight and move to another spot in the pool in order to regain some territory. After a while it looked like a wild game of chess where all the pieces were white and had feathers.
From my Monday 7-6-2009 trip to the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge outside of Smyrna, Delaware.
For more information on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/bombayhook/.
For more information on Great Egrets, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.
