Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> .......
>
> One day I noticed a woman observing the heron for quite some time but
> didn't speak to her and paid it little attention as I was in
> conversation with some other visitors. A bit later on I happened to
> pass by her again and as I did so she stopped me, pointed to the heron
> and asked why we had "plastic birds" stuck in the water at a wildlife
> refuge. But not nearly as bad a mistake as the visitor I apprehended
> who was climbing through the rail fence to go sit on "Molly" the 8 foot
> gator in the other pond. He thought she was plastic too. Just two of
> many stories from the refuge.
>
Great stories! I've never seen one still for that long, and not just
because I would have moved on. They move to catch things and eat them. I
guess the fishing must be better where I have watched them.
I just realized that I mostly see them in tidal waters, where the level
is always changing, so they need to move at least every so often. Still,
at a lake, the one working the shallows was too busy catching things to
stand still for very long at a time. Would fly down, catch it's fill and
go hang out deep in a tree to rest and digest. One year, there were a
pair of ospreys working the deeper water.
Moose
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