Is This an American Egret on Eagle Island Salt Marsh🏖️🕊️

Описание: Observing a Great Egrets in its natural habitat on the Coast of Northeast Massachusetts. These wading birds are truly beautiful to watch. See this rare bird, possibly blown in by a hurricane!

Hamlin Reservation, 135 acres
Ipswich, Massachusetts

A coastal farmland has a broad salt marsh loop trail around Eagle Island. This one-mile loop trail circles a forest of white pine, oak, and hickory. There are the remnants of stone walls along its perimeter.
A historic dike once connected Eagle Island to the mainland so livestock could graze the island’s pastures. Today, wandering the gently rolling fields and marsh meadows means encountering bobolinks and other wildlife that cluster around this placid island, located in one of the least disturbed parts of the entire 25,000-acre Great Marsh. The backside of the island overlooks extensive open marsh drained by Labor-in-Vain Creek, a remote landscape isolated from the modern world. Watch wading birds such as snowy and American egrets hunt for fish in this.

The primary differences are size, bill color, leg color, and foot color. American Egrets (Great Egrets) are much larger with yellow bills and black legs and feet, while Snowy Egrets are smaller, have black bills, black legs with bright yellow feet (like "golden slippers"), and yellow lores (skin around the eyes) that turn pink in breeding season.

The great egret, also known as the common egret, large egret, great white egret, or great white heron, is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. Recently, it has also been spreading to more northern areas of Europe.

The snowy egret was considered a rare vagrant from the south until the late 1940s. Its breeding range has expanded northward into Massachusetts during the last 50 years. Snowy egrets nest colonially on coastal islands, and the first reported nesting in Massachusetts was in 1955 in

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