The GREAT EGRETS at Umatilla hadn't fledged yet so you were most
likely seeing post breeding wanderers from another site.

Wilson Cady
Washougal, WA

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:42:10 -0700 "annejim kahle" <wanderingalb at msn.com>
writes:
> Yesterday I had a half a dozen or so Great Egrets in the vicinity of
> the boat ramp on the Columbia River at the boundary of Franklin and
> Grant Counties, with another couple across the river in Benton Co. Do
you
> suppose these are same ones that were seen at Umatilla recently?
> Anne Kahle
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tweeters mailing list
> Tweeters at u.washington.edu
> http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>
>