I found a Cattle Egret perched on the top of a dead tree stub off Doughty Rd., 0.2 mi E of Meadow Rd, in Bowdoinham at 10:02 AM. While digiscoping it, the bird took off, flying SW down the bottomland of the Upper Cathance River, toward Bradley Pond and Bisson's Field in Topsham.
I headed toward Bisson's, (on my route today anyway), and when I got there, the same or another Cattle Egret was standing in a stubble field, fairly close to Rt 201. I pulled over (not much room here) and a guy yelled "Hey, you can park in my driveway to get out of the way". At that point the bird lifted off and flew back to a section of the field under the power lines. Few more digiscopes. Of course I let the home-owner have a look through my scope. "Cattle Egret? Never heard of it". When I left at 10:40, the bird was foraging in the green weeds at that spot.
Presumably the same bird. The only things in common between the two sites were Cattle. Hmmmm.
(P.S. the geese at Bisson's were all Canadas. No lapwings at either location.)
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