Friday, September 5, 2008

Fierce Competition among Cattle Egrets.

Today, doing a morning walk with my four year old son, we stoped to watch about 10 caws there were grazzing, mostly of them were followed by cattle eggrets. There was a particular one that has two cattle egretts, a bit away from the other, when it started grazzing in a taller grass, aparently, a bit more bug productive, two more cattle eggrets, joined them...the first one , was OK but, the second one chased away a previous one...which attracted one more cattle eggret...I got impressed with this "Fierce Competition"!
Since the cattle is not that bad...We tend to get the cattle behaviour would be "contagious"...Another thing I noted: There where NEW eggrets joining the flocks...apparently, they are not true to a particular flock...
instead, keeping searching for food watching other flocks/individuals...
I wish everyone a great weekend!
Yours,
Paulo Boute.

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