When I passed through the boardwalk entrance, the one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron was perched on the railing and grooming. I sensed that the bird had already finished its breakfast. After the bird groomed, it flew toward the Landing.
A Great Blue Heron, that I thought that was a juvenile, passed through the feeding place flying towards the golf course along the wetlands. I am glad to see that the bird is expanding its range day by day. I sighted the bird three times during the time I was at Spring Lake. The bird did quite a long solo flight this morning.
After the one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron flew toward the Landing, a juvenile Green Heron flew down on the boardwalk about 10 feet away from me. The young bird’s neck was stretched, and the top of its short black feathers all stood up towards the sky. It looked like it was the young bird’s first adventure, full of uncertainty and curiosity. As soon as the bird started walking, the standing head feathers slowly went down to cover its head. The young bird kept walking for a few more feet and stopped. Slowly the bird stretched its neck and caught a resting dragonfly.
At the exit of the boardwalk, a Nutria was busy munching a Cattail leaf in the middle of many fallen Cattail leaves. After the Nutria was done with the Cattail, it went to the Yellow-Pond lily flower. With both hands, the Nutria bent the flower down, and started munching the flower deliciously. One petal of the Yellow-Pond lily fell from between the hands of Nutria on to the surface of the water. After the Nutria consumed the head of Yellow-Pond lily, it even picked up that fallen petal.
In front of the Landing, the Chinese Domestic Geese were trying to find a resting place, but the past few days we have had rain and the grass is wet. The mother goose decided to sit on some cobblestones that lie on a short path between the Landing and the diver’s waiting place. The mother goose sat on the dry cobblestones and the young goose followed her and the two geese started to sleep. However, the father goose did not want to sleep on the cobblestones. He decided to stay on the concrete path next to his family instead. He stood with his right leg half way tucked under his belly and put his head between his wings to sleep. It was cute to watch his one leg hanging down half way from his belly while he sleeping on one leg.
I found the one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron hunting on the barrier. The bird caught a crayfish, shook the crayfish with its beaks several times, and tried to swallow it, but couldn’t. The bird put the crayfish on the grass twice, but still could not swallow it. Eventually, the one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron abandoned the crayfish and flew toward the boardwalk again.
I was curious why the one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron could not swallow the crayfish. It was not a big crayfish.
I walked to the abandoned crayfish. It was a medium sized crayfish. I have seen the young Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron swallow big crayfish without much problem. I thought that the one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron was not hungry. I already saw the bird grooming at the boardwalk earlier. May be, the bird hunted the crayfish as a game as the bird now controlled the two best hunting places for crayfish.
The pistils of Century Plant on the first and second layers were more browned, but the rest of pistils were growing longer, attracting more bees.
I noticed strange mushrooms have started sprouting around one of Sago Palms and around the bush in front of the Swiss Sky Ride.
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