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Saturday, April 19, 2014

The Great Egret

The following photographs are of one of at least five great egrets recently seen at Lilypons...







Here are a few facts about these beautiful birds taken from the online source Wikipedia:

"The Great Egret also known as Common Egret, Large Egret or Great White Heron, is a large, widely distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized."

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