birds like dinner

After a disappointing ending to the movie "Swing Vote," mom and I went to see the fishermen under the South Bridge. The fishing poles were overstocked along the pier leading out into the channel under the bridge. There were young families with small children and someone holding a baby in her lap. There was one young girl who wanted her Grandad to fix the bait on her hook, but he wouldn't do it. She had to grab the shiny little fishy squirming in her hands. It took several tries of picking up the little fishy and loosing it to the ground. She finally picked one up and hooked it through the tail. The job was done where I believed the little fishy could wiggle himself off the hook and swim away.

The water birds were interesting to watch. When mom and I first arrived, we noticed it was low tide. This meant the water was out exposing the oyster beds along the sides of the Inter coastal Waterway. There were a couple of small black birds hunting for food. I figured them to be related to the Egret. The first black bird I saw was hard to spot, because it blended in so well with the oyster beds. It was a tiny bird with a sharp black beak. It had a stalking like animated motion. The neck would stretch out like the Egret when it is looking for food. The little bait on the ground only a bird could see. The body changed shape from a round to almost a coke bottle look. I don't know if it found the food it was looking for, but the second bird came along and distracted my attention. I thought for a few moments I was still maybe looking at the first bird. However, the difference came with the red color of the neck. The second bird's neck was red and he stretched it out more like the Egret and was a bit taller than the first bird. There was an Egret posted along the walkway of the pier. No one seemed to bother the bird except for me. I was too much in his territory so he flew away. Later he and a smaller Egret would be out on the rocks catching small tiny fish.