Thanks to the wet spring and the local swa-err mar-err wetlands, we've been lousy with egrets this year. We've been seeing egrets in pairs, clumps, and in one case a flock of 30-40 birds. That's made the university, which is on a rise above the wetlands, an especially popular place for a certain type of tourist. There's been lots of people standing out on the outlook bearing cameras and telescopic lenses, and they haven't even been industrials spies scoping out our defense contractors. Strange birds indeed.