BS: 'Officially' Spring - First Snowy Egret

Subject: BS: 'Officially' Spring - First Snowy Egret
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 05:27 PM

Well, by my own particular private and personal standards, I declare it officially SPRING in Seacoast New Hampshire -- today I saw my first snowy egret of the season.

I'd had lunch with a friend in North Hampton and headed to the beach on the way home to make sure the ocean was still there (it pays to check -- there's a bloke in England with a dipper...) and in the salt marsh at Cable Road and Rte. 1A (we drove past it, Micca) there it was -- posing for me. Just as if I'd conjured it up.

Some years their appearance doesn't quite coincide with one of my shore drives and I'm forced to squint out of desperation and pretend that a herring gull might be egrettish-looking. Or that one of the rare Great Egrets are actually a Snowy (squinting again, of course).

I've already seen bare knees on joggers and UPS delivery men and it's actually PAST maple sugaring time. Crocuses, daffodils blooming all over the place and the forsythia are starting, too. And buds on trees.

One of these days it might be warmer than 34 degrees (F.) in the morning...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: 'Officially' Spring - First Snowy Egret
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 05:41 PM

Yeah, well, we could get up to seven (7) (SEVEN!!!) inches of snow tonight! I have several snowy regrets....

Subject: RE: BS: 'Officially' Spring - First Snowy Egret
From: pdq
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 05:50 PM

Must be a Burl Ives fan...Mary Ann egrets...

Subject: RE: BS: 'Officially' Spring - First Snowy Egret
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 07:01 PM

Well, Rapaire, our snow isn't entirely gone...but most of what is left is disguised under a black sooty blanket.

But I hope we see no more snow this season. (We've gotten a, well not exactly "dusting" as it was wet and heavy, as late as the middle of May.)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: 'Officially' Spring - First Snowy Egret
From: Micca
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 07:05 PM

Linn, Im afraid here it is " No, No egrets, No we have egrets rien!
I saw a couple in a field near kendalls house when I was in Maine last year!! My only sighting of them

Subject: RE: BS: 'Officially' Spring - First Snowy Egret
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 09 - 07:15 PM

PT Barnum used to display them. He had a sign that said "This Way To The Egrets."

Subject: RE: BS: 'Officially' Spring - First Snowy Egret
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Apr 09 - 09:52 AM

Spring has definitely sprung in Kansas City. The crab apple tree is alives with white blossoms, and the birds are singing, declaring their territories.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Officially' Spring - First Snowy Egret
From: Will Fly
Date: 16 Apr 09 - 11:50 AM

Duck Baker, at a recent concert, told a story about nicknames. He met up with Utah Phillips:

...real name Bruce Phillips, but he gave himself the Utah nickname... He said to me, 'Your nickname's Duck - right?' I said, "Yeah'. He said,'What's your real name - Snowy Egret Baker?'...