Through the Maze, Again

S doesn't have a lot of free time, so we head across town to the friendly neighborhood marsh. The tide is high enough to use the refuge launch and duck the motorheads.  We head down the shoreline just to check out the trees where the Egrets and Night Herons like to perch.  There are at least ten Snowy Egrets with just a couple Night Herons.  Then, we head back and take the channel that leads across the marsh, making frequent diversions around the many islands and exploring a couple of channels as we go.  

The tide is high and still rising. It is in the upper 70's with a steady SW breeze and mostly clear sky. 

We head into the Nell's Island maze where we flush a good number of juvenile Night Herons, a couple mature Yellow Crowned Night Herons, and three Great Blue Herons.  We make it through the maze with only one bad turn. It is pretty good bird watching considering the high tide that keeps most of the Herons back in the grasses.

Back in Nell's Channel, we cut across the channel and head into an opening that I've not tried before.  Usually, such things peter out, but this one just keeps going and we paddle a meandering circle coming back to Nell's Channel not to far below were we started.

On our way back to our start point, we divert briefly to the Central Phragmites Patch where we flush three Black Crowned Night Herons.