In addition to the other creatures mentioned previously, my afternoon at Circle B Bar Reserve was full of feathered friends.

What I found interesting was that I took most of these images within 50 feet of each other. I couldn’t figure out the secret of that little bend in the creek but there must’ve been some magic there.

Top to bottom, left to right: Great Egret, Green Heron, Little Blue Heron (white juvenile maturing to blue), Black-crowned Night-Heron, Tricolored Heron, Pileated Woodpecker, Osprey, and four Ospreys in a tree (plus a number of smaller species that I couldn’t capture).

Enjoy the Red-winged Blackbird symphony (percussion courtesy of Pileated Woodpeckers):