It sure looked like an Egret Convention at Nauset Marsh the other day. I counted over 50 of them on the mud flats. I hadn’t seen more than a few together this summer, so this was a big treat! Were they getting ready to migrate? (Click on blog link for other photos.)
And then I watched as these 2 paddle boarders paddled straight out and, unfortunately, got too close to them.
And, of course, the Egrets all flew away. Hmmm…
“…The egrets are the colour of waterfalls,
and of clouds…
” they lift
like abrupt angels, sail, then settle again.”
from ‘White Egrets VI’ by Derek Walcott
https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/poem-of-the-week/white-egrets-by-derek-walcott-mary-anne-clark-poem-of-the-week