A late summer morning kayak excursion on the lake...although a wide variety of wildlife was not evident, I did capture some interesting behaviors of the creatures I did encounter.
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Blue dasher dragonfly |
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Great blue heron stalking its prey |
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Turtle love |
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Smiley face turtle |
A friend, Marilyn, sent me a smartphone image of these two buddies, below, and we thought it was a unique shot...until weeks later, I came across this scene, and there they were again:
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Pals |
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Great blue heron staredown |
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Treading carefully.... |
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What was that? |
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Darn, missed it... |
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Great blue landing |
This next set is a series of a great blue heron preening. He was standing in this positions for quite a while, burying his head deep in his feathers at some points, then, suddenly, started to cough and whip his tongue back and forth. I assumed he had feathers caught in his throat from the sound of it.
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Finally caught one! Looks like a small large mouth bass. |