Thursday, January 5, 2012

Dawn's Light

One morning during Christmas week I headed out early hoping to catch some wildlife in the light of dawn. When I arrived at my planned lookout I was surprised to discover I had beat the birds! The only stalwart fisherman was this Yellow-Crowned Night Heron. The good news was that he was magnificent. He looked like he had a spotlight on him in the low early light. And then he found this long legged crab and spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get in. 

After I did my morning walk and came back to the same place there were hundreds of birds fishing where this guy had been earlier.

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