June 19

Today was another gorgeous day.  I watched a Snowy Egret nearly dancing on top of water. Actually it was frantically chasing a small fish which it appeared to have nabbed but for a moment it looked to walking on the water’s surface. There were five or six Snowy Egrets feeding on the flats east of the Boardwalk and two more in the Overlook panne. Over there, I had an aerial observer.

One of the Ospreys was lazily soaring over the marsh and watching everything.  A few minutes later another soaring bird passed even more slowly over everything. It was a Turkey Vulture.

It was a big day for the gliding crowd. Yesterday morning I went strawberry picking with my granddaughter and my wife in Concord. While out in the field, a Kildeer started calling loudly and kept it up. I was curious and stopped to watch. A moment later the entire universe went oooooooooooo. Out from underneath a strawberry plant popped a Kildeer chick, the personification of cute. That’s why all the fuss. Mom was just protecting the kid.  The Mallard mother did something similar when she saw me today. She herded all the ducklings together and got them up on the bank and hidden in the grass while the evil two legs was around.  Mothers got to be strong.  Summer is officially here on Saturday and that will be a nice landmark for this year.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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