Adult Little Blue Heron - Belle Isle

There has been am adult Little Blue Heron hanging around Belle Isle for the past week plus. A really beautiful bird. Since I have been at the reservation we have only had immature birds. The large crowds of Egrets and Herons have started to build in numbers, around 60-100 birds each morning.

Babies & Migration

The shorebirds are starting to trickle in, meanwhile a number of our local breeding species are well on their way into fledgling their first broods.

                                                 Short-billed Dowitcher flock

                                                            Least Tern with chick

                                                           Piping Plover chicks

                                                            Male Scarlet Tanager

                                          Red-tailed Hawk with baby Grackle

                                                           Least Sandpiper

                                                      Short-billed Dowitcher

                                                                 Green Heron