cottonwood fluff

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Picking Up Nesting Material

By Mia McPherson|May 9th, 2026|Categories: Birds, Oklahoma, Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, Cottonwood, cottonwood fluff, flycatcher, flycatchers, grasses, gravel, nesting, nesting material, roadside, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, spring, Tyrannus forficatus|

Earlier this week I caught a flash of gray, white and salmon-pink next to a dirt road at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. It was a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.

What The Fluff? Great Egret Photos

By Mia McPherson|April 23rd, 2024|Categories: Birds, Eastern Cottonwood, Great Egrets, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, Ardea alba, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, breeding plumes, Cottonwood, cottonwood fluff, Eastern Cottonwood, egret, egrets, fallen log, fluff, fog, foggy, Great Egret, Horton Slough, leaves, log, misty, morning mist, plumes, Populus deltoides, preening, slough, spring, stump, tree, trees, wading birds, water|

I took this Great Egret photo yesterday at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. Even with the morning mist, I could tell something fluffy was stuck on its bill.