THE AMERICAN EGRET 



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Cypresses in Which the Egrets Were Nesting 

 The blind may be seen in the upper right-hand corner of the picture 



until we reached the first dwellings of the rookery that our 

 presence caused alarm. 



Here, at the tops of the tallest cypresses, from seventy 

 to one hundred feet from the water, the Great Blue Herons 

 had built their broad platforms. With protesting squawks, 

 they stretched their legs, folded their necks and took to the 

 air, leaving their nearly fledged young to peer over the edge 

 of the nest at the disturbing object below. With no less 



