The company that the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers hired was in the rookery with labrador retrievers to scare the egrets away. The dogs were in the water retrieving sticks that the man threw to frighten the birds. I wonder if they know there are at least 10 alligators in here big enough to eat a dog.
At dusk and dawn they fired guns with whistling sounds and shot flares to scare the egrets away. There will not be any nesting in this rookery this year. It has been a continuous rookery for the past 40 years. I won't even quote the price that the Corps is paying this company to do this--hundreds of thousands of our taxpayer money.
The company will continue to do this until they think the threat of an egret returning is over.
The Times Picayune is doing an article on this during the week.