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I made the short trek this morning to look in on the great egrets nesting off a ridge trail in a local mountain park. No babies yet, but nest-building is in full swing.

The birds were simultaneously both soaring like ghostly spirits overhead and squabbling and chuckling like chickens as they traded building materials and tamped down the floors of their nascent nests with their feet.

Photo of two great egrets on a brightly blue-sky morning, building a nest high in the branches of a Ponderosa pine. One is crouched in the beginnings of the nest, lacy aigrette plumes spreading wispily down from eir shoulders, eir bill taking hold of the fresh branch that eir partner, perched to eir left on a tuft of green needles, is stretching out with neck to hand em. Their white bodies glow a bit, bordered with gold, in the morning sun.
Close up of the first photo, focusing mainly on the necks and faces of the two egrets as one hands off a bit of nesting material to the other. The face of the deliverer is a bit in shadow at the end of eir long, outstretched neck, eir bill open like a pair of chopsticks holding the gifted branch. The face of the receiver is in sunlight, but a bit hidden behind a spray of pine needles, eir neck drawn down --an "S" shape--as e takes the offered branch.
Photo of a single great egret standing in the beginnings of a nest (shown mostly from behind). Eir aigrettes wisp golden-tipped in the wind as e tamps down branches with eir legs and lays a new branch in place.
#EgretsIveHadAFew#Birds#Nests
May 20, 2023, 09:15 PM·Public
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