- Oct 20, 2022
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Cattle Egrets turn up from time to time but this summer there is quite an influx. There’s reports today of multiple sightings in Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Essex and Nottinghamshire - just to name a few. I always check sheep/cow fields and heronies for Cattle Egrets. I find them quite easy to separate from Little Egrets when they are in breeding plumage - with juvenile/non-breeding birds it certainly gets a bit trickier.Many Egrets now seen on Brooks and have seen different similar Bird which I believe is "Cattle Egret". anyone else seen Cattle Egret in Ouse Valley below Lewes or anywhere else
ML621175573 - Western Cattle Egret - Macaulay Library
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I used to see one regularly near Ivy Lakes in Chichester and occasionally one would turn up in the cow fields in the Arun Valley.
Last time I saw a Cattle Egret (non-breeding) was on the work Reserve back in March flying overhead then landing in a tree for an hour before disappearing.
Try and get a photo
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