[mou] Snowy Egret

[Mark Davis]

I was travelling with my class (Macalester) on route 12 on our way to 
Sand Lake South Dakota on Saturday, April 19th, when we saw a snowy 
egret, between Benton and Ortonville.  The bird was with a great egret 
and seemed to be associating with it, i.e., when the great egret took 
off, the snowy took off and flew with it.  The two birds were standing 
in the wet culvert next to the road.  We were able to stop and get a 
good look at them before they flew off.  They were approximately 25 feet 
away from us.  I'm very familiar with snowy egrets from when I lived in 
Massachusetts, and of course a snowy is unmistakable.  The yellow feet 
were completely visible when it was standing in the wet, but trodden 
down, grass, as was the black bill.  And of course it was much smaller 
than the great egret.--Mark Davis

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Mark A. Davis, Ph.D.       651-696-6102
Department of Biology      fax: 651-696-6443
Macalester College         email: davis@macalester.edu
Saint Paul, MN 55105       webpage: http://www.macalester.edu/~davis/