Photographed during a MA Audubon survey of the largest heronry in Massachusetts. Only a small group of people go out to this island one day a year to survey it, so I was fortunate to be one of the few. Three others and I counted the nests of Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Glossy Ibis, and Black-crowned Night Heron. We discovered a White-faced (!) Ibis nesting amidst the Glossys, although we were unable to confirm if it was breeding with a Glossy, or another White-faced. This represents only the second nesting attempt for New England, and about the third for the northeast. Here's one of the high-breeding Great Egrets perched up in some really nice dawn light.
Handsome bird with nice breeding colors, well exposed, nice blue sky (a small puffy cloud or two separate from the bird wouldn't hurt however )
I might consider a very slight crop from the right. I appreciate you didn't want to crop the leaves, but I think the bird would be more effective moved to the right a bit.
Breeding Great Egret
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