I got this one 12, 13 years ago. Maybe 4 to 5 years ago, Cal Orchids had a whole bunch of them. Contact them to see if there are any left. If not, I can send you a tuber or 2 as I'm pretty sure I'll unpot it and start 4 or 5 new pots after they finish blooming. Depends on new shoot activity. Nick

Beautiful! We have egrets here, but none like that.

Too bad folks still think "feeding" various wild bird species is in any way a part of the answer to preserving them as species. It's a good way to screw them up. Far better to work to preserve habitat-wild habitat-where they can live as they are adapted to do. Handouts-usually of fairly questionable food items-is not a part of their salvation. +oM

I didn't know a cowbird was an egret. That's interesting, who'd a thought? They got ripped off on looks. Hey Mara, remember when I was feeling sorry for cowbirds when you were having to deal with them, building those cages and things and we got testy (well, probably it was mostly me getting emotional)? I still think they found an interesting, even if its rather sloppy, solution for raising their young while on the move, fine and dandy back in the day of the huge buffalo herds but they really got the short end of the stick and are now hated by so many because of the songbird plight, just because they are doing what they have always done. Its not unlike armadillo's defense against threats or predator's---run and appear like they are attacking, then bam, they plow right into moving cars and get run over. We see the poor things all over the highways here, sometimes by the hundreds it seems. I think of both as victims of modernity and loss of habitat. Horned toads and possums came up with a better plan of action--- play dead. "Nah, he's not dead, he's just playin' possum". klem, my sister is plagued by those Kites every year. That is one mean bird and they are deadly serious about their territory. They don't just send out warnings, its for real. Kamakazi.