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From: king@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (joyce.l.king)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Thanksgiving bird was a Wurdemann's Heron
Keywords: WOW LOOK AT THAT
Message-ID: <1577@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 89 13:06:19 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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We had Thanksgiving outdoors this year, under the Chickee hut at my 
sister's house on Plantation Key.  I was calmly eating my pumpkin
pie when my brother-in-law said his funny-looking blue heron was 
back.  There, on the seawall, stood a Wurdemann's Heron.  It seems he
had been coming by for dinner (my brother-in-law catches grunts and
mangrove snappers for the herons and egrets in the area) for about a
week.  

It's a first sighting for me.  I even got a photograph!  It doesn't
appear to know how important it is.  I did notice that it was banded.

I also found a small flock of wild flamingos on the south end of Key
Largo the day after Thanksgiving.  They aren't supposed to be here.
Perhaps they are escapees.  The same day I saw a scarlet ibis that
has most of the Upper Keys residents excited.  It has been around
for a couple of years, but continues to grace us with its presence.

Joyce Andrews King (from the Florida Keys via modern communications)
 


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