Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Great White - 8 of them no kidding

vGreat Egret Earl Plato

Three or four at the mouth of the creek in other years. Not so this May 1st, 2009. Eight Great White egrets at the mouth of Frenchman’s Creek just north of he town of Fort Erie. I see it as one of the most magnificent of our heron species. Audubon says that like its cousin the Great Blue heron “… it feeds alone.” We saw eight of them stalking fish, frogs and probably crayfish. Explanation anyone?

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