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  1. You know, I don’t think I knew what an egret was (other than a crossword puzzle answer!) Thanks for the pix so I can increase my knowledge. If I had just been shown the photo, I’d have guessed crane or stork! Who knew!
    Peace,
    Muff

  2. Yeah I was very confused when I first started taking pics of birds. My blogging friend Karoli helped me out. What I have figured out is that egrets are a type of heron. Cranes have shorter necks than egrets. If you see em flying cranes hold their necks straight and egrets have kind of an S curve to them when flying or they tuck them in. And egrets have black legs and longer beaks.

    What confused me for the longest time was there is such a bird as a white phase heron augh! O yeah there is some kind of egret that has orange-ish colored feet.

    I know you probably did not really want to know this stuff ha – but now you do!

    Jan

  3. I stopped by because you’re following me on Twitter. I’m about to go to bed now, but just wanted to let you know: I’m glad you defined Egret, because I had no idea what that was! I’ll be back though. Cool. Nicole

    • Thank you for stopping by. You can blame Sherri for the follow . … naw I have read your blog since Lisa pointed to it on her site and noticed the two (blog and twitter) matched up.

  4. See. I told you I’d be back! Glad I did too. Nice pics. You must have a fancy camera! Oh, it never dawned on me that it could be more than one bird!
    Nicole

  5. Doh, color me naive. I was totally buying the whole Jan and Eggie special relationship business aside from him/her being a bit of a stalker of others as well. Then, like Nicole, it never dawned on me that it was likely more than one bird. Am more than a tad disappointed.

    Great photos – I think #6 got me the most.

    Donna

    • augh my little munchkin it was the same bird. The other egret out there that day was smaller and no fun.
      Eggie really does stalk and hide and play games. He never fly’s when I have my camera out. Now if he is the same one that was at the restroom a prior time I can not say for sure.

      Egrets live a long time and some of them do take up permanent residency at the refuges. This one I am almost certain has been playing games with me all year.

      Anyway I swear upon my magic wand, Catfish’s favorite toy, whatever LOL the bird in the photos is all the same bird.

        • Mr. Catfish is hanging in there. His coat is not as lush as it used to be and he has upset stomach a lot. I now feed smaller meals through the day and that seems to help. He is more clingy also.

          All and all way better than expected. He is now with me on ignoring doctors and doing your own thing LOL

          Thanks for asking – and Catfish says hiya to Jake – well I think that is what woof ruf ruf roo means!

      • Sweet! I actually gasped when I scrolled down to see this photo. Now, that’s a stalker — well, I guess for this pic you were the stalker. Anyway, most excellent!

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