The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many North American wetlands. I captured this gorgeous bird coming in for a landing in the water at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve near Huntington Beach, California. Visit a pond or coastal marsh and look for an all-white bird—slightly smaller than a Great Blue Heron, with black legs and a yellow bill.
This American White Pelican is a winter visitor to the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach California. This behavior is commonly described as "sunbathing" or "wing-drying. They spend winters mainly on coastal waters, bays, and estuaries, or a little distance inland.
The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many North American wetlands. I captured this gorgeous bird standing in the backwaters at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve near Huntington Beach, California. It was looking for a good catch to eat. Egrets eat small fish but also eat amphibians, reptiles, birds, small mammals and invertebrates such as crayfish, prawns, shrimp, polychaete.
