Around 3:15 p.m. today, on the way back from a birding trip to Green River Conservation Area (Lee Co.–more in the next post), Larry Balch and I found a single Cattle Egret in a pasture with some Holsteins which is located on the east side of Meridian Road, north of IL 2 and south of the Montague Road intersection.  The pasture is on the south side of the large wooded valley on Meridian, so about 1 mile or so south of the Montague intersection.