May 9th 2010. An Intermediate Egret at Onuma a couple of years ago. This is one of the 3 egret species that regularly 'overshoot' during spring migration to south Hokkaido. The others are Little and Cattle Egret: they are about equally regular and all are far less common than Great Egret.
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Cracking! The background is unique (rice?). Any sort of Egret is exciting in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteHi Stuart, the background is (I think) a nasty muddy rice field with last year's stubble.........the egret was eating worms and what looked like some kind of slug or leech. Yuk.
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