RSVP Egrets Only

We took a ride to Parker River National Wildlife Refuge a few days ago and it was pretty quiet there perhaps due to the federal shutdown. But we ran across this delightful group of egrets which came as a surprise to me as I thought most had migrated by now. They were peacefully minding their own business until a couple of ducks starting harassing them. This caused a pair to take off in tandem which looks pretty cool.

When I got home I looked up the collective noun for egrets and they include “congregation” (most common as well as most obvious). Others included “wedge”; “skewer”; and “siege”. But the one I liked best is more humorous “RSVP”……