A Great Egret spent much of today on the shoreline of Morrisville's 
Lake Lamoille.
I saw it fly in from the north at about 11 AM. Its initial landing site 
was out of view, and I moved to a different vantage point. Not 
relocating it, I went back to the north end of this hydroelectric 
reservoir a half hour later.
The egret was now standing on shoreline mud. Suddenly an Osprey came 
 from nowhere and flew very low over the egret and made a sharp U-turn 
back over the egret and disappeared. It looked very much like the 
Osprey "buzzed" the egret. The egret's response was to fly up onto a 
dead tree overhanging the shore, where it began to preen.
Errands called and I departed about noon. I drove past about 2:30 or so 
and the egret was present on the muddy shore.


Bob Budliger
Morrisville