Snowy Egrets, Monroe County

[LaRue Wells]

This morning (Aug. 5) at 9:00 I saw a single Snowy Egret near the  
southwest corner of the Gun Club (Erie Marsh Preserve) and when I  
came back by the spot at 11:15 there were two.  To reach the spot go  
south from the parking lot past the big shed and the pump and on out  
to the southwest corner of the property (perhaps 0.4 mi).  Go around  
the wide-sweeping corner and proceed east, looking for gaps in the  
vegetation (of which there aren't many) that permit you to see the  
water on your left.  A hundred yards or so past the corner the  
expanse of water on your left abruptly widens, and a hundred yards or  
so east of that, on the far shore, is where the Snowy Egrets were.   
There were a few shorebirds in the same area, including several each  
of both yellowlegs, Short-billed Dowitcher, Stilt Sandpiper, and  
Killdeer, and a single Least Sandpiper.

Tex Wells