Great Egrets

Okay, I know this isn't a great photo - it's kind of impressionistic, in fact - but it was taken with my cell phone, not my camera. I'll have to go back out with the camera and see if they show up again. You probably can't tell for sure, but they are Great Egrets. There were eight of them by the time they'd all flown in and settled in a tree - not this one at the end, but a larger one a hundred yards or so down the river. Great Egrets were nearly wiped out by hats - their plumes were avidly sought - but they're making a good comeback. But I didn't know there were any here. In fact, on the Cornell Lab map (select the map to go to a larger version on their site) we're north of that little blue dot in East Tennessee. But here they are.