[texbirds] New foraging maneuver by Great Egret -- Reply
- From: "JeP" <jepbird@xxxxxxx>
- To: <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:16:42 -0500
I'm just now getting around to responding to Chuck's post of earlier this
month. I have also witnessed this hunting technique.
In about 2005 or 2006 I was at Northcliffe Golf club just north of San
Antone. There's a large pond on one of the holes and a Great Egret was
flying low and hunting minnows from the wing. The minnows were so numerous
that they would scatter up out of the water in front of the bird. He flew
back and forth across the pond a number of times, pausing on the bank
between each run. I don't recall that there was any particularly strong wind
for him to fly against.
I thought I had posted at the time, but did not relocate it if so.
jeff patterson
austin
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