I drove up to the Lake today hoping to find some shorebirds on the Ottawa auto tour. All I found was a truly miserable slog through the rain. I finished off the afternoon at Magee Marsh where I found a Cattle Egret on the way out. It was foraging in the grass along the road where it runs between the two canals north of the visitors center. It was a small, all-white heron, with a sort of a butch-cut head, a disproportionately thick bill and a strong jaw line. The neck was short and thick. The legs thick and black. There were no buffy plumes anywhere on the bird. I have photos which I will post tomorrow. Bottom line: shoulda gone to East Fork. Cheers, Bob -- Robert D Powell Congress Farm Research Institute Wilmington, OH, USA [log in to unmask] http://rdp1710.wordpress.com Nulla dies sine aves ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]