The Snowy Egret

[Tom Kitten]

12. Hi Peggy & thank you for the compliments!

Yes that picture (I think you mean the one with the orangy tree reflection that NV Whino also likes) is my favorite also. It's great how just a small amount of water can act as a mirror - plus the sunset colors really transformed the place, and for awhile I imagined myself in the Okefenokee or someplace similar instead of Orange County suburbia with three freeways a few blocks away!

I know they eat fish, probably small ones (the bird was about the size of a basketball) but that pool most probably didn't have fish. It was probably eating water insects, maybe freshwater shrimp (they live in vernal pools in SoCal), or maybe polliwogs!

By the way, I will be returning down there in a few months and staying a couple of months. Maybe I'll see you taking photos sometime!