On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:01:18 EST, kathy wrote:

Great White Egrets have also been called Great White Herons.
Is a big bird no matter what it is called!

kathy :-)

According to my handy-dandy bird guide, great white herons hang around
south of me, and they also have yellow legs and feet. My bird had
black legs and feet, so I think it's probably an egret. However,
shortly thereafter the otter popped up and stared at the bubbles from
the aerator, then it went back underwater and swam all over the pond.
Most of the time it would swim under the duckweed where I couldn't
see, but every now and then the duckweed would ripple and clear, then
the otter would surface briefly and then submerge again, first here,
then there, then way over there. It is surprisingly (at least to me)
big and speedy.

Oh yeah, the otter is mostly *brown*, too.
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