Birding from the Wildlife Drive late this afternoon HJ Kim pointed out a smaller egret preening on the grassy area that was once the bottom of the currently drained main pool. I know there's a lot of overlap between juvenile Snowies and Little Blues, neither of which should be here. I'm leaning Snowy because the birds legs were black in front and yellowish in back (the feet were coated in thick black mud). It's my understanding that any black on the legs is diagnostic for Snowy, but then again the InterWebs have been known to lie. Link to pics below.
BOB WASHBURN NYC https://www.flickr.com/photos/ny_bob/shares/06W18C BOB Whereabouts unknown -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
