Island in the Net is a personal blog about Personal thoughts, photos, and side projects. Since 2001

Great Egret fully fanning breeding plumes above a nest in bare winter branches

Saturday 11 April 2026
FujiFilm X-T3 · ISO 400 · 1/1000 sec
XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR · 294.5 mm · f/8.0

Great Egret Breeding Plumage at the Ocean City Welcome Center

Posted on Friday 1st May 2026 By Khürt Williams

A stranger with binoculars pointed us to a way down to the egrets

Lone angler wading in tidal inlet with Strathmere Upper Township water tower rising behind the dunes

Saturday 11 April 2026
FujiFilm X-T3 · ISO 160 · 1/250 sec
XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR · 600 mm · f/10

Corson’s Inlet

Posted on Thursday 30th April 2026 By Khürt Williams

Corson’s Inlet turned up Red-winged Blackbirds and Laughing Gulls

Two Herring Gulls perched on a double-headed street lamp at dusk, their white plumage tinged warm by the last light, with a crescent moon visible high in the pale blue-grey sky above them.

American Herring Gull · Saturday 11 April 2026
FujiFilm X-T3 · ISO 3200 · 1/500 sec
XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR · 150 mm · f/5.6

More Than Herons

Posted on Wednesday 29th April 2026 By Khürt Williams

tides, crabs, and killifish drive an entire coastal ecosystem

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