Egrets
The Waders of August
![Great and Snowy egrets and Little Blue heron, T. Rollins](https://www.clifftopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Great-Snowy-Egrets-Little-Blue-Heron-Tom-Rollins-Thomas-Rollins-Photography-110x110.jpg)
Pools of water along the Mississippi River floodway and bottomlands – pacing summer’s decline with a steadily reducing size – often host large congregations of wading birds. A late-summer leisurely drive along Levee Road offers viewing of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of herons and egrets. Adult birds, many still sporting worn remnants of once fine nuptial […]