Egrets

["Kim Farley via Canberrabirds " <>]

Thanks Geoffrey for your post which will help birders with those tricky egret identifications. And yes, 3 Plumed Egrets at Jerra Wetlands this morning, is highly unusual. For a photo of the 3 together see Shorty Westin's eBird Checklist at https://ebird.org/checklist/S296633239

Kim

On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 12:47 PM Geoffrey Dabb via Canberrabirds <> wrote:

Not aiming to win any photo competitions here and maybe not all that helpful but this morning a casual observer might have thought there were 3 great egrets on  a dead tree at Kellys with only one left a few minutes later.  In fact initially there were 3 Plumed that were dislodged by  a single Great at about 0730.  A point of interest was that one of the Plumed, the one with most remnant breast-plumes, also had remnant courtship bill colour with pale green skin extending from base of bill to behind eye.

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