Just the date.
This morning the hour is a little more reasonable than yesterday. Still in the sixties and just another really nice day coming up. We have had, for this area, an incredibly nice spring with low humidity and reasonable temperatures. Probably go to 110 in the shade for July through October but we count our blessings now. Took the first tomato out of the Victory garden yesterday, and that's a good sign. Have been eating green stuff from there for about three weeks. I think it cost somewhere around $30 per pound for the vegetables we have so far picked, so it's sorta like drilling your own oil.
This image is one I made in Florida some time ago. Normally these birds are pretty much loners except at breeding time.
The other time we can see them together is when both are feeding. Then we run into other photographic problems like depth of field in low light conditions. Luckily for the photographer, these guys stand stone still a great deal of the time and shutter speeds can accommodate the light levels in some cases. In this case I just got lucky because when on the nest they are very actively building, tending to eggs, feeding young and arguing.
The Great Egret, as is the Great Blue Heron, is a tall and slender example of the heron family and can provide some of the most elegant of poses. Some of the other birds of the same family like the Cattle egret are more stubby and stout and have to be really worked hard to get anything that looks elegant. But different strokes for different folks.
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