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Some major egret on the Charles
By adamg on Sun, 09/15/2019 - 1:04pm
![Egret on the Charles](https://www.universalhub.com/files/styles/main_image/public/images/2019/egret.jpg?itok=Q3DOrxRj)
Yesterday afternoon, an egret waded along the shallows on the Cutler Park side of the Charles in Dedham for awhile, before a duck got it riled and it began flapping its wings and tried to make the duck go away and then it walked onto a sandbar in the low river before flying the final 30 feet or so to the Millennium Park side of the river in West Roxbury.
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Egrets, she's seen a few.
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It did it ...
its way.
That is a fine photo of a
That is a fine photo of a fine bird.
Thanks for this
I saw it with my kids today and thought it was some kind of white heron. Beautiful bird.
You weren't wrong
Turns out an egret is a type of heron (I found out while researching egrets). There are several kinds of herons - including great blue herons, which look similar to egrets, only, well, bluer, and with a black racing stripe, and black-crowned night herons, which lost out in the long-leg department.
All three have made appearances at Millennium Park.