Of Cormorants & Egrets

These sultry afternoons on the Sound are calm and quiet.

It’s perfect weather to drift quietly around by boat and take a peek at colonial waterbird sites.

The northwestern tip if Ram Island houses Great Egrets roosting in thick vegetation – with old branches layered high ,the nests are large but  hidden well.

Farther out, on South Dumpling a large colony of  Double Crested Cormorants proclaim “squatters rights” to just the one dead tree on Isle.