{"id":1977574,"date":"2018-05-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=14a4b639d2313244b446ae522103140f"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:58:57","slug":"feisty-egrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/feisty-egrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Feisty Egrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a lovely snowy egret with gold feet on display and plumes blowing in the wind. It’s in a great fishing spot near the outflow from a water gate at one of the ponds at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

It’s a spot worth defending, apparently, and any unwary egret that gets too close gets chased.<\/p>\n

The one on the right lookscowed,doesn’t it? “OK OK — I’m going already!”<\/p>\n

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But egret #2 did not move fast enough and ended up getting a kwok-yelling, wing-beating, flying jump directed at him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Then a couple of others showed up and got the same treatment. “Go on, get out of here!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ok. Alone at last. Back to fishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Until the next interloper arrived!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There were interludes of unexpected synchronized flying. Very nice!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Then finally alone again. This bird looks to me like it would grumble if it could. I’ll bet more challengers showed up after I left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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