Great Egret

Great Egret Standing on Seaweed

This Great Egret was searching for sand crabs in the morning at the shoreline of Natural Bridges State Beach. Here, it stands on rocks covered with seaweed.

Great Egret with Sand Crab

This Great Egret was searching for sand crabs at Natural Bridges State Beach. Here, it carries one of the many sand crabs it caught this morning..

Great Egret on Seaweed Covered Rocks Carrying a Sand Crab.

This Great Egret was searching for sand crabs at Natural Bridges State Beach. Here, it carries one of the many sand crabs it caught this morning..

Great Egret with Sand Crab

This Great Egret was searching for sand crabs at Natural Bridges State Beach. Here, it carries one of the many sand crabs it caught this morning..

Great Egret with Sand Crab

This Great Egret was searching for sand crabs at Natural Bridges State Beach. Here, it carries one of the many sand crabs it caught this morning..

Great Egret and Snowy Egret

This Great Egret (black legs in foreground) and Snowy Egret (yellow legs in background) were searching for sand crabs at Natural Bridges State Beach.

"Caught" – Great Egret In a Spray of Water after Catching a Sand Crab

This Great Egret at Natural Bridges State Beach is in a spray of water after having just caught a sand crab.

Great Egret with Sand Crab

This Great Egret was searching for sand crabs at Natural Bridges State Beach. Here, it carries one of the many sand crabs it caught this morning.

Great Egret with Sand Crab (closeup)

A closeup crop of a Great Egret with a sand crab at Natural Bridges State Beach.

Great Egret Positions Sand Crab in Beak

This Great Egret just caught a sand crab at Natural Bridges State Beach. Here, it is manipulating the sand crab in its beak, getting ready to swallow its meal.

Great Egret Positions Sand Crab in Beak (closeup)

A closeup crop of a Great Egret with a sand crab at Natural Bridges State Beach.

Great Egret Spreads its Wings

Every now and then a series of waves would hit this Great Egret that was searching for sand crabs, and it would spread its wings for balance.

Great Egret with Sand Crab

This Great Egret was searching for sand crabs at Natural Bridges State Beach. Here, it carries one of the many sand crabs it caught this morning..

Great Egret in Blue

This Great Egret was slowly and carefully moving through the water looking for meal.

Great Egret on the Hunt

This Great Egret was hunting for food in a still patch of water at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, California.

Great Egret Lookout

Watching and waiting. If you have ever watched a Great Egret, you would know there can be a lot of watching and waiting as they search for food.

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Great Egret in Flight

Water Reflections on Great Egret

Great Egret in Pastel