I'm not a Birder but....

[dragon300zx]

I have been kinda getting into bird photography since hanging out with Harry down in florida. So that said. I have lived in michigan my whole life and I knew about the general birds we have here. Hawks, herons, seagulls, air rats (pigeons), mocking birds etc. Well I saw lots of egrets down in florida among other things. So since I have gotten back I have been noticing birds and stuff while I was driving around (and sometimes planning on going back to those areas later to try to find them again with my camera) and when I was driving to the doctors :rolleyes yesterday I think I saw something. I think I saw egrets flying around near my house. Now I recognize them from florida. But I had never noticed egrets in michigan before. Was I just blind all these years. Do egrets actually fly up here to the cold? Or was it something else that looked like an egret. I saw two flying in the same area.

[DoctorIt]

I'm not a bird expert myself, but there are some herons or egrets that venture up north. I know for a fact blue herons make it up to New England, so why not southeastern MI??
:dunno

[dragon300zx]

Blue herons I know make it here. Herons in general I know do. It's the egrets that are throwing me but from what I can find online looks like they do.

[Steve Cavigliano]

It's amazing what you notice once you start shooting birds. To the point of almost getting into accidents on the road due to staring up at a bird flying over....lol

Egrets are pretty hardy and I think you'll find that they like the same climes as herons. So I think it's likely that you have them in Michigan. One of the Great Lakes is even named after a bird. Lake Heron :lol


Steve