Junklekitteb
Registered User
I know these photos are of garbage quality, but you all are basically wizards so you may be able to help me out.
At the lake in the botanical gardens there is a sort of sewage pond where I saw two egrets. Unfortunately I didn’t think of photographing the closer one. It seemed to have all the field marks of Great - gape extending beyond eye, long kinked neck, no black-tip to bill, greenish lores: but it scarcely exceeded a great cormorant in size. Maybe I’m just bad at judging size. Realising my mistake later, I headed back to try and find it again, and found an egret, perhaps the same one, but much further off - with some fiddling I managed to snap these photos. It also seems to have all the field marks - it’s perhaps not visible in the uploads but it seems from the photo to have the gape also. There are two Great Cormorants in the background to show size, although they are a bit further off as you can see. I simply don’t feel knowledgable enough to take a call so I have turned to the forum.
At the lake in the botanical gardens there is a sort of sewage pond where I saw two egrets. Unfortunately I didn’t think of photographing the closer one. It seemed to have all the field marks of Great - gape extending beyond eye, long kinked neck, no black-tip to bill, greenish lores: but it scarcely exceeded a great cormorant in size. Maybe I’m just bad at judging size. Realising my mistake later, I headed back to try and find it again, and found an egret, perhaps the same one, but much further off - with some fiddling I managed to snap these photos. It also seems to have all the field marks - it’s perhaps not visible in the uploads but it seems from the photo to have the gape also. There are two Great Cormorants in the background to show size, although they are a bit further off as you can see. I simply don’t feel knowledgable enough to take a call so I have turned to the forum.
