August 7, 2010

I was happy to see the mother of the chunky, juvenile Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron standing on the floating dead tree this morning.  But, she flew to the edge of the Aqua Harvester to look around for a short time and flew away toward the river. 

I was puzzled by her behavior, and I looked at the floating dead tree trunk which the mother of the chunky, juvenile Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron just left.  I realized that the Algae already covered around her favorite hunting spot, the floating dead tree trunk, though another floating dead tree trunk nearby was still showing some water surface around it.  I thought that the situation of growing Algae was disturbing the hunting, and she had to abandon her territory.

The hunting territory of the mother of the chunky, juvenile Yellow-Crowned-Night Heron is under the trees, and the area is shady all the time.  And, the color of Algae in that area is still greenish/light brownish compared to the golden wheat color of the Algae, which stays under the sun. 

It was interesting to see that the Sago Palms show exciting changes.  Two round seeds started peeking from the side of feather-like, hemisphere shaped Sago flower.  Also, I was surprised to see that lump of pale green leaves shooting up from the base of the cones, and these strong young leaves pushed aside the blackened cones.  That strength of young power reminded me of the bamboo shoots.  Several bright green lizards were enjoying the morning sun on the dark green Sago leaves and that lighter green was enhancing the Sago Palms.     

Canna Lilies along the railing in front of the submarine produced several more scarlet, velvet like buds, but most of flowers turned to dark brown and dried.  It has been flowering and beautifying the area all summer.