365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Heron In Repose
Day 121: The Nisqually Land Trust held a workshop for site stewards old and new at Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge this morning, which gave me the perfect excuse for a nature walk. After sitting for several hours, I was more than ready for a two-mile sprint to the end of the boardwalk, but I had forgotten about the seasonal closure of the last 700'. I find it hard to reconcile duck hunting with a refuge, but I am not the land manager. I'm sure there was wisdom in the decision, or at the very least, an agreeable trade-off. That said, the wildlife seems to know to stay close in, and several Great Blue Herons provided plenty of photo ops. Sleepy Sam untucked for the classic heron portrait, but I have tons of wide-awake heron images in my files, not nearly as cute (in my opinion) as Heron In Repose.
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