Friday, 16 March 2012

Preening Egrets

At Sungei Buloh Wetland there is a dead tree that many egrets use as a roost during high tide. Conveniently there is a hide sufficiently close for digiscoping the birds:


It's nice to be able to photograph these birds because in Canada they're much more skittish and much more uncommon than here in Singapore.

Great Egret:

Little Egret:

Great Egret:

These photos are actually from January some time. I've been meaning to go back to try to get more photos during sunset. I went yesterday but the high tide was too low to force the birds to the roost.