Hi Birders, Yesterday and early this morning we checked Farrell Lake, the big lake in City Park, and Duck Lake, on the southwest edge of the zoo, for Snowy Egrets, Black-crowned Night Herons, Canada Geese, and Double-Crested Cormorants. The best show in town is the Snowy Egret colony on the island in Farrell Lake. And the best place to see all the birds is on south side of the island where you're within 150-200 feet of them. From here you can easily photograph egrets nesting, foraging on the muddy shore, and sunning. You'll find most of the egret nests below the cormorants', and bracketed by the herons'. Our count of the egrets was 13 in late May, and again yesterday and today, but a wildlife photographer watching the birds with us this morning said that more are nesting within the thickly wooded small island. For half an hour we watched the egret parents circle and swoop down, then alight on the cusp of their stick nests and bill regurgitated food into the mouths of the nestlings craning their necks up to receive it. Pretty fantastic. The cormorants are also feeding their young, but the herons don't seem to be. The island in Duck Lake hosts a large cormorant rookery, and much smaller ones of herons and egrets. Other birds in the area were swallows, Black-capped Chickadee, Yellow Warbler, House Sparrow... Frank and Nancy Hatch Denver
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