Don’t mess with these bad boys!
The Interloper arrives
The face-off
Beat it
In no uncertain terms
The Victor
Tussles over turf pop up regularly between the egrets and herons feeding in the marsh. They often conglomerate in one small area to fish for minnows, occasionally steeling a catch from one another, and there is always one who appears to be the big kahuna of the marsh.
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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."
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The Interloper arrives
The face-off
Beat it
Good Morning Gloucester 
Excellent shots, Kim! Thank you.
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Thank you Susan, amazed at the sheer numbers of them this year!
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Great Egret ~ Great Story ~ Fabulous Phoros!
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Many thanks Mary–I just love documenting our local wildlife–who needs to go to Africa when you live on Cape Ann 🙂
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Very nice and very little physical contact in this fight more flapping through king of the hill movements 🙂 Dave & Kim 🙂
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Very much so–King of the Hill, or Kahuna of the Marsh
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Tremendous shots! You should be in National Geographic Magazine!
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Thank you Rick very sweet of you to write that 🙂 🙂
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