Wednesday March 29th - Cattle Egret
Wednesday March 29 th – Cattle Egret Wednesday morning Mike and I decided to take a quick trip out to Howard’s Marsh and were able to find several new FOY birds. These included a flock of Dunlin, a couple of Pectoral Sandpipers and a single Caspian Tern mixed in with a flock of gulls. We were a little short on time, but decided to take a run through Metzger’s Marsh. We hadn’t seen anything unusual and were leaving when a woman coming the other way rolled down her window and asked if we had seen anything special. We said no and she said, “There’s a Cattle Egret right over there with the gulls”. I thought to myself – yeah, right! I assumed that she had misidentified a Great Egret, but I was wrong. There really was a little Cattle Egret in breeding plumage right there. This is a pretty rare bird in Ohio especially this ea...