Video of White heron Flying around Shellpot Creek

Finally caught video of a White Heron flying around our section of Shellpot Creek north of Wilmington, Delaware. I fell a little bad following it around to get the video because it finally flew onto the roof and then downstream to feed because of me.



Up on the roof of our house.

Hopefully it will come back some day when I am not around to bother it and eat some tasty fish in our section of the creek.

Birding at the Shellpot Creek Wildlife refuge

These past weeks have seen the return of two of my favorite bird species to the Shellpot Creek.


This short tailed hawk was in the front yard with its catch. The catch looked like a morning dove but it was hard to see. The photograph is from far away and I wish that I had video of it flying away instead of just the picture. We have seen hawks in the front yard before (one, two).

As usual the white herons still like that one spot on the creek where the larger fish congregate. I will have to try to get video of one these flying up the creek as well. We usually see several white herons a year on the creek (an earlier visit, another visit). They seem to like the morning and the fish.

Great Egret - White heron on the Shellpot Creek

The wildlife sightings continue on the Shellpot Creek. This morning I saw what I suspect is a Great Egret (or White Heron) feeding in the creek behind the house. I even saw it eating a fish, though I could not get a picture of that. These photos are courtesy of my crappy Treo camera, some with and some without the binoculars. (My good camera is broken!)


It had a yellow bill, and dark legs.


It also had a long neck.








It tucked its neck into an S shape when it flew away up the creek. All of these are characteristics of a White Heron.