Cattle Egrets of all shapes and sizes

Thursday, July 14, 2011
In our blog of 24th April, Stewart had visited a breeding colony of Cattle Egrets Bubulcus ibis that was starting up. Now he returned to find thousands of birds in a colony in full swing, from incubating birds, to small juveniles, and others recently fledged.

Incubating adult. Going for a second brood or retrying after a first failure?


cute juveniles


feeling the heat - it regularly gets above 40 degrees celsius here!


adult on lookout duties


part of the colony


recently fledged hooligans


adult on guard