It's nesting season for spectacular plumed wading birds at High Island rookery
Great egret eggs are bluish green. That color develops in the mother bird's reproductive tract. Photo Credit: Kathy Adams Clark. Restricted use. Photo Credit: Kathy Adams Clark Restricted use.Long-legged wading birds — great egrets in flowing white plumes and roseate spoonbills in radiant pink plumes — stage a breeding ballet at Houston Audubon Society's Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary in High Island, about 90 miles east of Houston.
The birds aren't showing off their elegant colors or flying about and uttering those guttural sounds for our entertainment. They're engaged in the frenetic work of forming breeding partners and building nests. Breeding activity is in the early stages but will peak during the last two weeks of March and the first two weeks of April.
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