Great Egret Magnets

great white egret in the humber river

Tending To Its Feathers ©Debra Martz The early morning sunlight emphasizing the beauty of the Great Egrets white feathers. Breeding season is soon and this one is showing signs of the additional plumage they get during this season. Meanwhile in the upper right, a single Black-necked Stilt with its bubblegum pink legs strolls on past. Image captured in the Leonabelle area of Port Aransas, Texas in early March. ©Debra Martz, All Rights Reserved

A great white egret spreads its wings while perched on a driftwood log during dawn on an autumn pond.

A great egret takes to the air over a lake in Northern California.

Beautiful dancing great egrets.

Great White Egret

A great white egret flies toward the sun at day's end.

A beautiful great white egret. I love these birds that are both elegant and awkward. From my original oil painting. Also available with painted background.

The Eastern Great Egret is a permanent resident at Lake Baroon, Maleny. Very close to my home and has been the subject of some great photos...it really knows how to pose!

Great White Egret Landing!

Part of #100daysofbotanicalbirds project

A great egret wading in the shallow wetland waters of the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Kent County, Delaware. Wildlife Photography by Sandra O'Toole.

A great egret standing through the wetland reeds at the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Kent County, Smyrna, Delaware. Wildlife Photography by Sandra O'Toole.

"The light of the Sun begins a new solar cycle at Winter Solstice. The rays shine into the dark, and nurture the newborn life there to be cultivated. This is mirrored in nature and the nature of life all around us, as the seeds are buried in the darkness of the Earth they emerge once again with the life-giving rays of the Sun."

Great Egret As Still As A Statue ©Debra Martz A fairly common bird, especially in coastal areas, but it just looked so bright white and beautiful standing in the green field. Image captured at the Santa Ana NWR in south Texas ©Debra Martz, All Rights Reserved In My Gallery/Collection: Feathered Friends 3 20230302-DSC_7106.NEF

Photographed at Palm Beach South County Regional Park, behind the Daggerwing nature center. Nikon D40, f/5.6, 1/1000 sec., ISO-400, 300 mm.

Photographed at Palm Beach South County Reginal Park, behind the Daggerwing nature center. Nikon D40, f/7.1, 1/1000 sec., ISO-400, 300 mm.

A photograph of Great White Egret foraging for food on the river.

The great egret also known as the white heron is a species of bird in the Ardeidae family. This heron measures from beak to tail between 80 and 104 cm, its wingspan is between 131 and 170 cm. Its weight ranges between 700 and 1,500 g.

Eastern Great White Egret illustration from Pictorial Monograph of Birds (1885) by Numata Kashu. Digitally enhanced in black and white.

What should I eat today?

Finding this Great Egret in the winter grass in the reeds fronting a Langley farm on December 31, 2018, was a great way to wrap up the year. My subject was neither disturbed by the trio of photographers capturing its every move, nor by the traffic roaring down the 2-lane road, and in fact, ventured to with 15 feet of me to feed. Whatever caused this migratory heron (which is a rarity in Metro Vancouver) to spend its decidedly non-tropical vacation here instead of at its regular winter stomping grounds in Miami, Mexico, and Guatemala is a mystery -- but one that I am very grateful for.

Sat down for a spot of lunch at the Wetlands at Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria, Australia - and saw this Great Egret, in full breeding plumage, parading on an old log, trying to attract the females. Must be that time of year!

great white egret - electrified -

A view of a white great egret in a marsh at sunset.

A graceful white egret flying beneath the sun.

Artwork of a Great white egret seen through a flower.

Artistic Illustration of a water color I painted of a great egret that was on the edge of the water in Everglades National Park in Florida

A great white egret flies toward the Atlantic Ocean during an early morning sunrise.

Artistic Illustration of a water color I painted of a great egret that was on the edge of the water in Everglades National Park in Florida

A Great Egret in a small dam at 100 Acres reserve in Park Orchards, Victoria, Australia. The bird was very nervous and watched me carefully. Loved the reflection in the water.

This is my original artwork of a great white egret flying gracefully from an old wooden pier.

Great Egret

A Great Egret holds a shrimp in its bill while standing in shallow water. Shot with a Canon 1D Mark II and a Canon 600mm lens.

Patriotic Egret by Debra Martz It was Spring time and the Great Egret was starting into breeding plumage with green lores and wispy feathers. It was flying over a canal on North Padre Island when it landed on a neighboring deck facing their American flag. Several digital filters have been used to create a painterly digital art from my origninal photograph. Copyright Debra Martz 20190317

A close up portrait of a great egret (Ardea alba) in New York City Central Park, New York.