snowy egret
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In search of the great yellow footed
| SNOWY EGRET nest & chicks |
About 24 inches in height and wing span about 41 inches.
It's all white with a black bill, black legs, yellow feet, and yellow eyes.
Large plumes on its head and back and they curve up wards. During breeding season lores turn red.
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Snowy Egrets chicks have yellow feet and green skin.
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Which did come first?
The egg or the Egret?
Inasmuch as I don't think I will find any eggs unless I can find where these
Egrets are nesting I'm going stick with the Egret came first theory.
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So, it looks like I had better try to find an Egret Rookery.
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Well, I think I have found just that sort of a place.
After taking a good look I really don't want to try and enter.
It's about the size of a football field and filled with CATCLAW so thick you can't see into it for more than a few feet.
Makes a fella want to turn and run the other way as fast as he can,
and the smell was beyond description or words, what a JOLT!!
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Well, I can see I am going to have to make a trip to the ACE hardware store for some mighty large heavy duty lopper/cutters.
Next I will need a suit of stainless steel armor.
Guess I will have to settle for a long sleeve shirt, heavy gloves, large rim hat, and a breathing mask.
In cutting my way through the catclaw I had to cut every limb at least 2 to 3 times.
Just because you cut it, it does not fall to the ground.
After you cut it, you must pull it down from the over head and then drag it out of your way.
If you try to walk over it your going be hurting and bleeding badly.
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Well, it's been three days now and I am in about 100 feet into this thicket.
At the end of each day my self and every thing I took into the Rookery is WHITE & it ain't from snow.
With hundreds of Egrets & Herons over head nesting and chicks standing on the edge of their nest,
there is a constant raining down of this white stuff that keeps coming out the back end of all of these birds.
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How dense was it Earle?
Well?
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I have shown a few images of the dead birds hanging in the trees and on the ground as I hacked my way into the area.
I have put them on a separate page so if you don't want to look at them you don't have to.
Click here if not continue on.
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