Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey
Date: 27 September 2019.
Place: Fishlake Meadows Nature Reserve, Romsey
Date: 28 September 2019.
[Ardea alba, Family Ardeidae, Order Pelecaniformes, Wikipedia Entry: Great egret]
The sound of the great white egret (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Hans Matheve)
Distribution and sightings of the great white egret across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 
This is Little Egret, isn’t it?
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Yes it is, black bill and yellow feet – as opposed to the great white, which has a yellow bill and black legs and feet
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yep
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I was still very surprised to see it. Not a bird I grew up around at all.
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I’ve seen them as far north as Cley-Next-the-Sea in the east and Portmeirion in the west
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