{"id":9473,"date":"2022-05-30T22:03:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=9473"},"modified":"2022-06-02T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:03:29","slug":"westerly-creek-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/30\/westerly-creek-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Westerly Creek, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, I made another trip to Westerly Creek. During the previous visit, it was really windy, so a lot of birds had hunkered down for the day. When I got to the junction with the Sand Creek, I did not see many birds, so I made this image of the reeds along the Sand Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sand Creek, Reed Reflections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After a few minutes, I noticed an egret appear from behind a curve in the creek, so I approached the spot via another trail. No egret — another couple, with their dog, had approached the creek on the opposite bank and had disturbed the bird, so it flew off.. So I turned back. The egret had left and flew downstream. Soon I noticed the Snowy Egret had moved to the rocks above the waterfall. What fabulous lacy plumes on the birds head and tail!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Snowy Egret, Westerly Creek Waterfall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There was a commotion taking place between a couple of Night Herons; but I failed to get any decent images. By this time the egret had moved to another location to resume hunting for food.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Snowy Egret, Westerly Creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I made several images at this location, including this one with the egret’s reflection in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Snowy Egret, Westerly Creek, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There were three Night Herons close to this location. Here is one heron at the water’s edge, waiting for an opportunity to catch a fish.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Night Heron, At Water’s Edge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Here is the second Night Heron further upstream on the rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Night Heron, On The Rocks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Snowy Egret also moved near to the heron. The Snowy Egret can be identified from other egrets by the yellow slippers (it’s feet) which are really distinctive in this image.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Snowy Egret, On The Rocks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After leaving the area of the creek, I encountered a Western Kingbird. When I arrived at Westerly Creek, this kingbird flew off soon after parking the truck. When returning to the truck, I made this image as it was perched on a street sign.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Western Kingbird On Street Sign.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The trip to this location ended up be a fun experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I made another trip to Westerly Creek. During the previous visit, it was really windy, so a lot of birds had hunkered down for the day. When I got to the junction with the Sand Creek, I did not see many birds, so I made this image of the reeds along the Sand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1835,1715,1836,686,1829,1720,1837,1370],"class_list":["post-9473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-kingbird","tag-night-heron","tag-reed","tag-rocks","tag-sand-creek","tag-snowy-egret","tag-waterfall","tag-westerly-creek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t