"Native to Africa, Asia and southern Europe, the stocky little white herons first appeared in Surinam in the late 1870's ... The first documented record for North America was a specimen collected in Massachusetts in 1952 ... The first confirmed sighting [in Texas] was on Mustang Island in November 1955 ..."

Photo taken with a Nikon D80, using a Nikon 200mm, f/4 micro, manual focus lens.

June 14, 2008.