[TN-Bird] Big White Egret

Standifer Gap Marsh, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN
May 17, 2005, about 10:00 A.M.,

a very large white heron/egret flew in from the south, about 100-200 feet up, 
turned in a big half-circle and left to the south again.  It appeared much 
larger than a Great Blue Heron and flew with a much slower wing beat.  It was 
rather dingy rather than brilliant white as in a Great Egret, and it did not 
appear to have any black on legs or feet.

I post this without any guess as to what it might have been; south of Miami I 
would call it a white morph of Great Blue Heron.  

David Patterson
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