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Stephen Moss, writing in The Guardian, says Cattle Egrets, birds once so exotic they were rarely seen north of the Mediterranean Sea, are now nesting in a heronry near his home in Somerset, England.   Flocks of them often gather in nearby fields with Jerseys and Holsteins.   He states they look quite at home on the English side of the Channel - which nowadays they apparently are.   The small white herons, adorned in orange breeding-plumage, are just one of many species of waterbird to colonize southern Britain in the past decade, as a result of climate change.   They include the Little Egret, which has bred in Somerset since the mid-90s, and the Great White Egret, which nested on the Avalon Marshes less than a decade ago.  Egrets are hard to ignore of course, and even people with little interest are beginning to notice the elegant white birds in their midst.

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