Spring is near, and it’s time for baby birds to start hatching. And that includes a pair of Great Egret babies that I saw at the Orlando Wetlands Park.
I recently came across some Sandhill Crane colts at the same park, and it was cuteness overload. It’s pretty hard to say the same about the Great Egret babies.
The first thing that came to my mind when seeing them was how prehistoric they look, like some character out of one of the Jurassic Park franchise movies.
But we know they’re grow up to become the majestic white bird that we see around Central Florida’s waterways.
I only saw two babies in this particular next. But the Audubon Field Guide says there are usually three to four and sometimes six eggs in a Great Egret nest. “
Eggs are “pale blue-green. Incubation is by both sexes, 23-26 days. Young: Both parents feed young, by regurgitation. Young may clamber out of nest at 3 weeks, able to fly at 6-7 weeks,” the field guide notes.
