Hawkes Bay - 3 Great Egret

[sav]

Hi all,

Hey AC - I see your 2 Great Egrets and raise you one!

We almost always have a single Great Egret over Winter somewhere in the Napier/Hastings area, but this year a bird first seen at Haumoana (the estuary of the Tukituki River) in mid-March, was joined by another after a couple of weeks and then by a third last week.

All three birds were feeding together within about 20m of each other this afternoon.

cheers

[les]

yes, I saw an article in the local paper about this. It was said by the person that submitted the photo that they believed that the white heron had not been seen there for the last ten years?.No so,I have seen them regularly for every year around haumoana,east clive,waitangi estuary.not to mention various places around napier as well.

[sav]

Hi all,

The 3 HB Great Egrets were all still in place at Haumoana this afternoon.

cheers

[Michael Szabo]

Three have been reported in the Wellington area recently. One has been at the Waimanu Lagoon in Waikanae for over a week now and two others have been photographed at Titahi Bay and on the lower Hutt River Estuary.

[Ken George]

There are two of them at Sullivans Lake in the middle of Whakatane at the moment. There is normally at least one in the area each year. Second time I have seen two together in Whakatane, last year there was a pair hanging around.