A Haunting Expression

I was going to post a different set of photographs this evening, but there was something about this Snowy Egret's appearance and expression that has haunted me all afternoon:

The three ducks seen almost in silhouette in the first photograph are Gadwalls, another species of birds that have migrated back to South Texas for the winter.

This set of photographs was taken from the Roosevelt Park Trailhead on the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River on Thursday, January 2, 2014.