Great Egret: York County Maine, USA, September 2024 — I continue to be amazed and delighted by the number of Egrets and Herons we have this year in the marshes and on the sandbars at the mouths of our Southern Maine rivers. This year you find mixed feeding flocks, generally with a few Great Blue Herons, and this month with Greater Yellowlegs, scattered in marsh pools…one day here, another day there, all along the river at high tide. This egret was part of such a flock and flew in, while I was standing on the path, to the small, kiddy-pool sized pool closest to me, perhaps 30 feet away, and proceeded to hunt the grasses and water just at the edge. Add the increasingly colorful September marsh grasses and the light of the early September sun, and it makes for a rare Maine portrait of a Great Egret. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom at 523mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. Animal/bird recognition and Highlight metering. Processed in Photomator.