It’s been raining the last two days. Not all the time, but enough to keep me home. Plus there were still issues that needed to be taken care, left-overs from being away for five months. So I haven’t been out for pictures in two days. That’s pretty much unheard of. But, I thought, surely I must have photos that I’ve downloaded into one or the other computer, photos I overlooked for one reason or another. So the feature photo is an iPhone photo from the Bayport sunrise just the other day. It’s pretty much a rerun of the ones I’ve posted already. But it’s the heron I saw that day that caught my attention. It’s sad to say that while we are happy to see all the birds here, we photographers I mean, the fact that these birds are willing to hang around near people is often what will lead to their demise. Do you see his leg? He has fishing line attached there, and often it’s so very much worse looking than this looks. Maybe someone tried to untangle him and this was the best they could do? Perhaps. Often times you’ll see that the overhead wires that line the street where the bridges lend themselves to fishermen fishing there, will be covered in fishing line. And there was one-foot Fred, the Great Blue Heron who I saw many times, who the fishermen told me lost that foot to fishing line. It’s upsetting to see. It seems as if fishermen, who are out in nature as often as possible, would be more respectful of all the creatures out there. And I have looked and looked at this photo and I have no idea why it appears that you can see through this guy. I. hope it’s some optical illusion of some kind…
A Snowbird's Life Through the Lens 