@ai6yr @cvvhrn as a kid, we would drive down every summer from Oregon to Fresno and then into the Sierras in the summer. I would always look for the first egret of the trip on the way south.. Usually we'd start seeing them around Arbuckle.

Years later I learned that there are a bunch of different species! I've seen at least three different species in the Salinas Valley in the last few years. And sometimes they come over and hunt from the floating kelp canopy here in Monterey.