I was glad to see a Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron grooming itself on the railing when I passed through the covered boardwalk entrance. I approached the bird and found that it was the older one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron.
The feeding place was busy this morning with five Great Egrets and several Green Herons. Among them, I saw three American Coots who were on their way there, making a nice morning procession together. They decided to reside at a spot near the boardwalk, next to the Great Egrets. The coots are shy. It was nice to see a Red-Shouldered Hawk fly down to join them on the railing. It was looking at the water surface as if it was hunting.
The older one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron took quite a long time to groom itself. I could see that the bird was satisfied with its breakfast. It did not want to leave the superb crayfish hunting area that it had found.
On the way to the Landing I saw a squirrel standing on its hind legs and holding a white flower, which it was eating. After the squirrel finished eating, it looked up at another flower as if it could not resist eating more. It then stretched its body upward and used both its hands to pick another one that was growing from the vine on the bush next to the Landing. I also saw a Blue-Throated Hummingbird collecting honey from other white flowers nearby.
I wondered how the younger one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron was doing at the other hunting place between the Landing and the diving facility. I was glad to see that it was busily hunting under the Bald Cypress tree. I was hoping that older one dot Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron would accept the younger one at the barrier area without any more conflict, and that it would learn to share the two hunting places peacefully.
Under the Bald Cypress tree that grows beside the kayak dock (near the usual resting place of the Chinese Domestic Geese family) a large Nutria was enjoying a meal of delicious grass. At the same time, a moss-covered turtle was slowly coming out of the water and up onto the land. I was hoping that the turtle could find a safe place to lay her eggs.
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