There have been plenty of Great Egrets spotted all over Connecticut in the last month. This individual was at a Stratford marsh last week.
We tend to think of them as a summer species with birds nesting in nearby colonies, but they arrive early in the late winter/spring, and stick with us through the autumn. Some are even found during Christmas Birds Counts! And the warmer it stays during winter, the easier it is for various long-legged waders to forgo migration and hang out with us, for better or worse.
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