Blast From The Past Finds...Great White Egret
Great White Egret is a thrash bird in Ireland these days. It's not up for debate. They are a scarcity, have probably bred, and are destined to be as widespread and common as Little Egret in times to come I dare say. Like with Little Egret, however, there was a time when it was a mind blowing bird. My first was a bird which wintered at Roundwood reservoir, Co. Wicklow of all places, but my first self found bird was a different story. Kilcoole, October 30th, 2000 On the 30th of October, myself, Ciarán Smyth and the rest of Clan Foley tipped down to Kilcoole to twitch a pair of White-Rumped Sandpipers which were in situ on the BWI reserve. On the way down, somewhere around Glen of the downs, whilst we were all looking through the bird books, Conor flicked over the page to Great White Egret, and I said "Ohhh it will probably be some time before to claw that species back on us (myself and CAS having seen the bird at roundwood). Success with WR Sands was pretty instantaneous and we ...
