My favorite place on the Jekyll trip was the lake behind the abandoned amphitheater. There were so many egrets and herons there that it seemed like some kind of magical secret garden. Thomas and I ended up going there three times in our weekend trip and just sat there, hiding under the trees taking photos.

We saw Great Egrets (the big ones) and Snowy Egrets (the small ones).

And several kinds of Herons. This is a Yellow-Crowned Night Heron. We also saw Black-Crowned, Little Blue, Great Blue, and Green Herons.

We were surprised to see an Osprey.

And we saw a ton of Black and Turkey Vultures. More about them in the next post…

The other birds we checked off at this location included: Double-crested Cormorant, Blue Jay, Anhinga, Hooded Merganser, Pied-billed Grebe, Limpkin, Northern Mockingbird, Yellow-rumped Warbler, and Red-bellied Woodpecker. Oh yeah, and we saw a turtle too.

You can see more photos from the Amphitheater lake here:

• Ampitheater Lake (34 photos)