Meet
Egbert the Egret
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| Portrait by Shirley. |
Help
has arrived to fight the grasshopper invasion!
Every
morning if you get up early enough and go out in our yard, there he
is , stalking along with his head bobbing up and down, catching his
breakfast- grasshoppers!
If the
dogs bark or chase him he flies off with a majestic flap of his
wings. When he almost bumped into Cooper , the white cat ,who was out
for his morning stroll, Egbert looked at Cooper and Cooper looked at
Egbert, then both decided this white creature was not one of their
own kind and so turned around and went their separate ways.
It is
unusual to see an egret in the garden by itself. They usual are in
big flocks that descend on a grove of trees and make a rookery with
lots of nests, lots of noise and lots of mess. It can be quite a
problem as the egret is on the list of endangered birds I think so
they can't be moved and have to be tolerated until the nesting season
is over.
The
other place you will see them is out in the fields following the cows
and eating the insects stirred up by the cattle.
So we
were quite surprised to see Egbert the solitary bird in our yard but
we welcome him.
Anything
that will help kill grasshoppers is welcome!!
I like your picture very striking with the blue background,
ReplyDeleteyou Habe. very different birds out your way I thought the
egrets live in Jamaica, they seem to like a high position
riding on the backs of cows grazing . At least I think
they're Egrets. nice picture