Day 267 - a Year by the Sea

September 25, 2007 by OrientSee.

The sedentary group of Great Blue Herons was still around this morning. They just sat out there in the grass. One of them moved closer to another and then suddenly, the two were fighting. Two pairs of six foot wide wings were windmilling at each other as they leaped at each other in real kung fu crane style. It was startling and then it was over. Everyone pretended that nothing had happened and they all went back to brooding over the marshscape. It would have been very easy to have missed the whole tiff. It certainly isn’t breeding season and they have been hanging around together for a while. It must have been two adolescent boys proving something to no one else. In the meantime a Northern Harrier (Marsh Hawk) was slowly coursing over the marsh hunting. The heron crowd is still around and so it was another good day at Belle Isle.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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