Bird Watching: Daily Pics. Vol. 317, 1 by bordersandjacks

bordersandjacks wrote:
Love all the pics, especially the baby birds!

Someone asked about the nest being so low to the ground and what about predators. These nests are all in fresh water swamps, usually on islands. In addition to the egrets, there were lots of heron nests in the same trees. Very cool. Anyways, fresh water swamps around here mean alligators. Occasionally they will eat a baby that falls out of the nest, but they also munch on the raccoons that are big predators if they try and swim out to the egret nests.