Who doesn’t love ABBA? Rhetorical question. But for those who do, Crank Up the Music.
We have been watching a Little Egret working the low tide shallows for the past few weeks.
Little Egrets like large areas of shallow water and will chase prey about in a series of long steps and short wingflaps. They do look like they are dancing in their elegant pursuit of highly mobile prey.
Sadly this one is out of breeding plumage and the long veils of plumes are absent.
The huges storms of about 6 months back redesigned the sand of the beach, the tidal pools, and mudflats. Swept them clean like a high pressure hose.
So much so that much of the normal feeding grounds amongst the mud and sand have been stripped away. The usual beach dwellers, ducks and waders have had to move to new feeding grounds.
The open waters seem to have been suitable for the fish to come in on the tide, and much to the delight of the Dancing Queen easy to spot in the shallows against the mudflat backdrop.
So Crank up the Music.
Birds as Poetry —— Just because I WANDER doesn't mean I'm LOST 