I was very fortunate to grow up on a good-sized muddy lake not far from where I'm sitting. There, I could watch muskrats, catch sunfish, and observe a particular great blue heron. Every spring we ...

There are not many birds out there that have feet a different color than their legs. From the top of their legs to the bottom of their "toes," most birds are uniform in color. With many birds, such as ...

You’ll almost always spot a few egrets along the south bank of the Calaveras River near Stockton Golf and Country Club. But Ward Downs, a retired English teacher who is interested in birds, couldn’t ...

Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

Nothing in nature captures the lure of spacious winter fields quite like the softly bugling call of sandhill cranes. Their rolling, resonate, bhrrr-ooo—bhrrr-ooo calls seem to bounce from Earth to sky ...

I recently took a short walk down my backyard hill to take my grandchildren fishing on one of the stone-arched bridges at Silver Lake. As we got across the road and I could see the first bridge ...

Identification books on British birds dating back a few decades seldom trouble themselves with the little egret. Into the 1980s, the chances of spotting its snow-white outline, perhaps hunched and ...

11 x 23 inches / 27 x 58 cm PAPER SIZE: 12 x 25 inches / 30 x 63 cm ...