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Index of Subjects Today one of my daughters photographed a cattle egret beside the Hwy #1 in Garlands Crossing, Hants County it was there all day. They saw it in the morning and it was still there when they returned from Halifax later in the afternoon. 4063 Nova Scotia Trunk 1 Windsor, NS B0N 2T0 44.974112, -64.109328 (google) George Forsyth Quoting Elizabeth Doull <edoull@ns.sympatico.ca>: > Nov 9th - I found the cattle egret landing by the roadside ditch/ yard of > House 6346 Hwy 211 in Cambridge! However, it took off and headed west. > No luck in relocating it. > > Nov 8th - The cattle egret surfaced on Joan Hebb's yard - 7149 Hwy 211 > Billtown/ Centreville, NS. It was where the yellow headed blackbird was > last year. > > Liz > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "George E. Forsyth" <g4syth@nspes.ca> > To: "naturens" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 8:27 PM > Subject: [NatureNS] Cattle Egret 7295 Hwy 221 Centerville Kings Co > > > > Hi All, > > My son called on his way home from work to report, "a cormorant sized > bird, all white, long legs and long orange-yellow beak, standing > beside the road at Gilbert Allen's". I told him I suspected it was a > cattle egret, as there have been some reported recently. > > I drove out to G.W. Allen's and sure enough standing beside the road > by a puddle in front of the machinery lot was a very dejected looking > cattle egret. It was raining and the egret was hunched beside the > parking lot and this puddle, it only reluctantly turned its head when > I stopped to look, as much to say that this puddle in this rainy lot > was taken! I drove on. > > George Forsyth
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