A pretty November day at the beach. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. A strong SE breeze was not felt thanks to the cliff. And we found something unusual. Where we often see Great Blue Herons hanging out fishing, we saw a big white one. Hmm.
We hoped it was a return visit by "Whitey" the stray
Great White Heron from a few years ago, but black legs, and yellow bill show this to be a
Great Egret (formerly Common Egret). Not especially rare in MD (they're common over on the Eastern Shore), we don't see them here very often.
This one behaved just like the GBHs. When we got too close, it would fly ahead of us, and settle back down, until
at some point, it got tired of moving down the beach and circled around behind us back to the beach.
When we got back to the parking lot, we found him again, on the rocks at the top of the marina.
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