.Vivianne

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Last summer I sat in the egret rookery two hours a day for a month. I have been sitting in the rookery since February 15 of this year studying these fascinating birds and am getting to know their courtship habits, their mating habits, their nest building skills and the care they take of their babies. When I win the lottery I want to write a book about them. Truly, I am not kidding. These two are courting. See how they're looking into each other's eyes. They do a lot of neck touching and bobbing and knee bending. They are starting their nest; I watched them glue down the first stick with egret spit (bet you didn't know that's how they hold down that first stick) and now they are enjoying each other's company before the real task of laying eggs and raising the young begins.