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Cattle egrets 2023-06-04

These cattle egrets showed up as soon as I started mowing with the tractor.

They followed me around, eventually getting within two feet of the tractor, jockeying to snatch up bugs.

This is the best writeup I’ve found on the origin of Bubulcus ibis, which it now lives on six continents and is sometimes found in Antarctica.

So I had a camera while I was mowing the neighbor’s pasture:

It seems you cannot catch cattle egrets with a tractor.

-jsq