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Cattle Egrets

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Fred Shaffer

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Fred Shaffer

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Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:21:04 -0400

I counted 56 Cattle Egrets in the grassy field in the northeast corner of 
the MD 3 and St. Stephens Church Road intersection.  I saw the large group 
as I drove north on MD 3, then turned around and looked through the birds 
from the shoulder of St. Stephens Church Road.  There were both young birds 
and adult egrets still showing breeding plumage.  I see Cattle Egrets here 
pretty consistently this time of year, but this is by far the largest group 
I've seen.  I believe that my previous high count in this field was 17. 

Fred Shaffer
Patuxent MOS