All photographs ©2004-2008 by Mary Beth Stowe
Waders
Although considered a vagrant, Reddish Egret can be somewhat regular at the mouth of the Tijuana River!
Black-crowned Night Heron waiting for us after the 2008 New Year's Day Pelagic trip!
Young Black-crowned Night Heron at Doheney State Beach, Orange Co.
Fleeing Cattle Egrets at Finney Lake, Imperial Co.
Cattle Egret roost at Ramona Pond
One of the more amusing sights at Mission Bay is the clam-digger with his attendant Snowy Egrets!
Deformed Great Blue Heron on Fiesta Island
Cattle Egrets and White-faced Ibis feeding in the fields of Imperial Valley
Nesting Great Egrets at Bataquitos Lagoon
Calico Little Blue Heron along the Flood Control Channel
Young Least Bittern at the Santee Sewer Ponds
Snowy Egret at Guajome Regional Park
Immature Snowy Egret at Santee Sewer Ponds
Snowy Egret at Tijuana Slough NWR, giving the photographer a dirty look...
Digiscoped view of the Reddish Egret that hung around South Bay the fall of 2005 and returned in 2006.
Great Blue Heron making chests at a nearby rival at Lindo Lake.
Snoozing White-faced Ibis at Famosa Slough
Immature Black-crowned Night Heron at Lindo Lake, also taking a snooze
Green Heron with his bait bucket at Lindo Lake (just kidding...)
Posing Great Blue Heron at Lake Morena
A Great Blue Heron goes after an Eared Grebe at Lake Hodges; the heron seemed more interested in bullying the poor grebe than eating it!
Great Blue with a "do", Famosa Slough
Same bird, who decided to join the feeding frenzy (below)
Chow time at Famosa Slough (can you name all five species?)
Tricolored Heron, a rare vagrant, also joined the buffet
Subadult Black-crowned Night Heron at Lindo Lake
Baby Great Egrets at Lindo Lake