The egret bonanza continues at the flash with an incredible seven great white
egrets & 14 little egrets today! To put that into context, prior to this
year I had just five records ever of great white egret at the flash and four
of those were last year. So far this year I've got 39 records of the species,
often involving multiple birds, though seven is a new site record. Fourteen
little egrets is also a new high for me and I think equals the site record.
Four great white egrets were in Ramsdales, one from Tom Edmondson hide, one east bay reed bed and one at the western end. The first six were seen within minutes of each other, the seventh was in it's usual place at the western end about 15 minutes later and I see no reason to assume that it was one of the six since it's always at the western end these days and never seems to leave that area.
This adult Mediterranean gull was the only gull of note in the roost, though
to be honest I did spend more time watching the egrets than the gulls.
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