Day Trip 2022- #6

The Rookery

Day Trip 2022- #6

Ocean City, NJ

July 5, 2022

• I went to see the rookery again.  I was here five weeks ago, just as all of the eggs were laid.
• The eggs have now hatched and there are two to four little, very active babies in each nest.
• Some of the babies look as if they are ready to try flying.
•  In addition to ibis, egrets and herons, I saw a few new birds that I could not idneitfy.
• There were more people here than the last time I was here.  There were more serious photographers there as well.
• The temperature was perfect: not too sunny, not too hot. There was a slight breeze.
• The bottome section was closed to the public.  The last time I was here, I couldn't find the path to the lower leverl.  I wish I had.  It would have brought me eye level with some of the nest.
• The battery of my good camera was dead and I was so damn mad at me.  My cell phone was just not adequate enough to take the photos I wanted to take. I am going to have to come back.
• There were black ibis and red ibis.  I am going to have to look up more infromation on them.  And some of them had beaks that were so red.  They were alomost a blood red.
• On the way home, I stopped at the Somers Point Brewery.  All of my beers were delicious.