> >The summer birding doldrums came to a spectacular end today with the finding >of two large and showy rarities. A Cattle Egret was found by Candy Giles at >LaSalle's Landing Park feeding on the lawn. This was not entirely a surprise >as there had been a report of one a week or two ago seen on the roof of a >car(!) in the airport parking lot. Not exactly a chaseable bird, although at >today's sighting there were stories of people who had tried. Then Mike Tetlow, >who had spent this SW-windy afternoon at the Braddock Bay hawkwatch counting >Bald Eagles, young Broadwings and young Redtails,spied a black-and-white >shorebird on the breakwall and drove to the East Spit to check it out. Sure >enough, it was an American Avocet. Score another good bird for the new >breakwall across the mouth of Braddock Bay. > >The Cattle Egret was still being seen through early evening. The Avocet was >not visible but had not flown, having tucked itself in behind a barrier. It >had been flushed once by a young eagle but had returned so might still be >present tomorrow morning. > >ebird hotspot names are LaSalle's Landing Park and Braddock Bay--East Spit. > >Pat Martin
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