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J R's New White Rock Lake Journal

J R's Guide to the Birds of White Rock Lake
Photographs + Text © 2006 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved.

Introduction & Index

FIRST PAGE - Herons
COMING SOON - Redwing Blackbirds   Flycatchers   Mockingbirds   Egrets   and    Pelicans

Great Blue Heron - copyright 2006 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved.

Great Blue Heron Flying Low

These pages will show and tell my experiences and photographs of my friends, the birds of White Rock Lake. Like any valuable pages on the Internet, these will be updated with newer and better pictures as well as newer, and better educated commentary.

The First page in this new guide is about Herons, which may be one of the more populous species in North America but are rare here at White Rock. The best of the best of my current heron-ography, along with my observances thereof, are on this guide's first new page.

Black-crowned Night Heron in the Afternoon Sun
1/640 @ 11 iso400 300mm P CWA

I keep seeing more herons, and I hope to continue that progression. I have photographs of them flying up from the Spillways Steps to their perches in the trees overhead, but not much more than that. Yet.

This is my most definitive photograph yet of this supposedly nocturnal bird. You can see everything but its toes. Its eye is vivid and sharp, and that suave plume rakishly sweeps over his head and down its stubby body.

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The Egret Ruffle - 1/1600 @ 8 300mm iso400 A spot

The next page will be my opus on Egrets. The above may look like an extreme display, but I it's actually quite ordinary. Everybody ruffles from time to time. We call it stretching. Dogs do it; people do it. I've seen many birds do it, though this Great Egret has more texture to put into it than most.
 

Amber Wave of Egret - photograph copyright 2006 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved.

I'm lucky to be flown-over by egrets often

Later, other birds, other birds, including our beloved grackles, redwing blackbirds, Scissor-tailed flycatchers, mockingbirds and pelicans will be added to the mix.

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