A friend posted beautiful pictures of birds, mostly egrets, on social media, which drew my attention. It turned out the photos were taken at Dallas bird sanctuary on UTSWMC campus. I decided to visit this nature preserve then.
A weekend in early June on the way home from Houston, we took a detour to visit this place, over 2 years since I knew its existence.
It was shortly after a severe storm devoured downtown. As we approached the sanctuary, we saw fell trees, large broken tree branches, we could not find an entrance or a sign when we arrived. We parked on the roadside by the area, and walked toward the wooded area where the sanctuary is supposed to be.
The sanctuary has densely spaced trees, all we saw was just a green wall from less than 30 yards away. We walked closer to the tree saw a few egrets soaring in the sky and quickly we smelled strong odors.
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| outskirt of the sanctuary |
All we saw were snow white grand egrets - on the tree branches singularly, on the top of trees in groups. There were many nests in the middle of the woods. Some egrets were soaring in the sky solo.
What a scene!
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| An egret stood solo on at branch |
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| Bird nests |
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| egrets stood on tree top |
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| cluster of egrets |
The egrets I saw near our community are mostly fly solo . Apparently they do fish and live in group in large habitats, like this sanctuary. We saw large group of egrets fly and fish together at Everglades national park.
But as we walked around the perimeter of the sanctuary, there were also sick or wounded egrets struggling, and quite a few dead birds on the ground. That's the reality of life!
The sanctuary provided the great egrets and other birds a habitat to live naturally.
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| outskirt of the sanctuary |
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