This seems like a good week to go back to last month’s pictures taken at the Texas Gulf coast, as our Minnesota temperatures are expected to drop into the teens by week’s end. Brrr! This is one of my favorite birds, a Tri-Colored Heron. One thing I’ve noticed about all the birds is that they are continually looking for something to eat. Do you think any little fish or frog around this heron has half a chance?
During a beach walk to the south jetty (about 2 miles each way), we saw a Snowy Egret. They are quite a bit smaller than the egrets we see here in MN, and are quite delicate looking.
This was a perfectly beautiful October day, and the fishermen and -women were fishing all along the jetty. And a photography note: The jetty is very long and the people were quite a distance away. I used my zoom in taking this picture. Notice how the zoom seems to compress the distance shown in this picture. The people on the jetty weren’t as close to each other as it appears in this photo.
Stop here if the sight of fish blood would bother you.
This is the first time we saw someone with a shark as his “catch of the day”.The fisherman had cut off the tail of this blacktip shark to bleed it out. He said this is about the best tasting fish there is. I would estimate this shark was between 2.5 feet and 3 feet long. It was a little unnerving to know that someone pulled a shark out of these waters! (I don’t know where I thought sharks would live, but I guess I assumed they were swimming off someone else’s beach.)
And I’ll leave you with a more pleasant picture of some bicyclists enjoying an afternoon bike ride on the beach:
–Sue
