First of all, I learned that it’s “heron” and not “huron“. Oops. I was wondering why my Google searches kept directing me to Michigan-related websites…
Last night Dave and I went on a good old fashioned DATE! The kids are visiting grandparents in the northeast through next weekend, and even though Dave’s hard at work these two weeks, we had a fantastic weekend! Yesterday we went tubing on a creek in the northern part of the Florida Panhandle, then we went parasailing and wrapped up the evening with a delightful steamed seafood dinner. I’ll be blogging about our parasailing next, but for now I wanted to share this cool series of iPhone pictures I took of this Great Blue Heron* enjoying some fish. I didn’t have my good camera with me, since I didn’t want to lose it on the parasailing boat.
I thanked the family who bought the fish feed that lured the fish for the bird to eat…
*Yes, I’m capitalizing the full name of this species of bird, per this journal article.
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| He started out on the dock, staring intently at a patch of water near the public fish food machine. |
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| Staring hard… |
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| Now he’s on a floating platform just below the fish feed machine…he moved to this spot after a kid put 50 cents in the machine and got a handful of fish food. |
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| Splash! He quickly darts his beak into the water as the fish come up to get the feed. |
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| He got one! |
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| After swallowing the first fish, he’s immediately on the lookout again… |
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| Splash! |
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| Another one! |
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| You can see how the fish has enlarged his neck. |
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