August 19th. Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodius) at Cranberry Bog.

 

A good view of its damaged tongue sticking out of its throat. It has been this way for four years.

 

Cooling or drying?

 

Sunflowers and bees at the public garden plots to the east of Cranberry Bog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) at the pond east of River Road.

 

 

 

A Great Egret (Ardea alba) at the eastern end of the pond.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not seen until I started editing pictures, a Green Heron (Butorides virescens) and a Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) beside the Egret.

 

 

 

 

 

Ah, the Green Heron has turned around - and the Wood Duck is gone.

 

 

 

 

 

Back to the Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus).

 

 

 

 

 

A male Wood Duck (Aix sponsa), perhaps the bird that was beside the Green Heron.

 

August 20th. (My parents' 87th Anniversary.) The Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) has claimed the Wood Duck house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green Frog (Rana clamitans).

 

 

 

The usual Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodius).

 

Gee, its lower beak seems eroded away. Very old bird?

 

A female Wood Duck (Aix sponsa).