Date: 4/17/26 5:59 pm From: Yaukey, Peter via groups.io <pyaukey...> Subject: [ALbirds] Egrets nesting (almost) under Mobile Bay bridge
AL Birders:
If anyone is wondering how close GREG egrets can form a rookery to a very busy expressway bridge, the answer appers to be, practically underneath it.
I shot the (lame) cell photo below today while crossing the I-10 bridge eastbound, there are perhaps 4-6 GREG sitting on nests in that brushy clump. It is between mile markers 35-36, I think. It is not visible from the westbound lanes, too close beneath. There is another small baldcypress clump with GREGs sitting on nests a couple hundred yards north, visible from westbound lanes. Sorry if this is all common knowledge.
The birds being invisible because they are too close beneath the road calls to mind the crazy Brown Booby roost that formed under the Lake Pontchartrain causway 10 or so years ago when the Booby Madness was just ramping up, with a couple dozen roosting on the side the the bridge structure, invisible to the thousands of cars driving within c. 10 feet of them every day.
