While trying to get in on a pretty much non existent migration flight at Fort
Tilden, I stumbled upon a Cattle Egret loafing on the soccer/rugby fields. This
one showed even less breeding plumes on its head than Rob Jett's Floyd Bennett
Field bird and looked more like John Young's bird from Van Cortlandt Park.
Today's CAEG (Cattle Egret) makes it 3 seen for the month of October and 4 in
total for the year for me, having seen one on the East Pond earlier in the
year. With Peter Dorosh's report of another CAEG documented by Gus Keri at Bush
Terminal Pier Park in Brooklyn. We could have at the moment 3-4 CAEG in play
(not sure if the Bronx bird is still being seen). I wonder how many more we are
missing that are out there in our area.
Cheers,
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
Douglass
風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu The Art of War
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Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
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