 Would you identify this white egret as a Great Egret, a Snowy Egret, or a Cattle Egret. Ding-ding-ding, if you identified it as a young Cattle Egret, you are correct. Unlike adults, juvenile Cattle Egrets have a black beak and legs.  As I positioned myself to photograph a young Bald Eagle perched in a skeleton tree, a second recent fledgling flew toward the dead tree and circled twice before landing, providing a chance to photograph it in a number of soaring positions.  With 2 young Bald Eagles perched in the tree and another summer fledgling standing on the shore of a large shallow marsh filled with hundreds of ducks, gulls, and dowitchers north of the Border Marshes, it wasn
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