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A bird was reported to me via a friend from along the Mullocks Road. The report was a week ago, and I doubt it if the bird in question is still about. It was shortly after the hurricane force winds and rain that we had. Anyhow, this is the road that cuts across from Rhodes Corner through to Whynott's Settlement where the recycling centre is. The bird apparently was closer to the Rhode's Corner side. It was described as an all dark heron, but a smaller one with an orange colored bill. The person who saw this bird spotted it perched on a railing for a bridge alongside of a pond beside the road. It was keyed out right away, as the person who saw it, has a house very near the pond and he went right to his bird book. The bird was reported to me as as a dark morph reddish egret. I got the email the day after the sighting and went to try and find this bird right away, but could not find anything. Although it is possible that the bird could have been blown inland, the reddish egret is a bird of saltwater marshes according to Sibleys. I think that it is more likely that the bird in question was a little blue heron in regards to habitat. In second questioning the reportee, he is unsure now about the color of the bill even though initially he was adament about it. Anyhow, the reportee will have his camera on hand and if the bird shows again he will try to get a photo and will call me right away. This person knows the normal birds about and recognized this one as different. He also took note of the size and it is definitely not a great blue heron as he knows this species and of course a great blue is much larger and looks different then the discription above. I've documented it as a little blue heron unless other confirmation can be obtained. Just in case, has anyone online had other reports, or of confirmation of a reddish egret, either in New Brunswick or elsewhere in the maritimes or across the bay from us that might correlate to this sighting as a possiblilty only in Nova Scotia? Again no confirmation of this bird has been made and I'm only reporting it as an unconfirmed possible, just in case it happens to show somewhere else as a reddish egret correlating to the same timeline. To Ian or others, what is the history or record of reddish egrets in Nova Scotia? Has there ever been one? I have no knowledge of such. Again just to clarify, I am not stating that the bird resported was this species and put these questions forth only out of curiousity. James R. Hirtle Dublin Shore _________________________________________________________________ See Fireworks On Live Image Search http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=Fireworks&mkt=en-ca&FORM=SERNEP
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