Anglers

It was a lovely morning in Estabrook Park, and it was also very quiet, but I’m not sure which conjunction should go where. I initially wrote that I didn’t see any new or surprising visitors, but I did see my first snowberry clearwing of the season. It was checking out a stand of milkweeds but was gone in a flash, and I failed to get a picture. Instead, the fishing birds showed more patience, so long as I didn’t try to get too close.

There was a pair of kingfishers on the pond, and I hoped to capture them both at once, but this female will have to do.

There was also a green heron, but I didn’t see it move.

The only one I saw catch anything, however, was this young great blue heron on the river.

“Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet“

Bingo!

Wait. What?

Ah ha! I thought it came up empty at first, until I zoomed in.

Compared to the fish we’ve seen them swallow, it’s gonna take a few of those to fill that gullet.