The light was not ideal. Clouds and I think ash are still in the air. We almost had the marsh to ourselves. I was chasing munias when I saw the greenie hunting. Jerome says when they are hunting they tend to tune out distractions... like Sasquatch and Co.
I liked the reflections in the water and pushed all the sliders to inject more color and life. Happy Slider Sunday.
"The Green Heron is one of the world’s few tool-using bird species. It creates fishing lures with bread crusts, insects, earthworms, twigs, feathers, and other objects, dropping them on the surface of the water to entice small fish." Allaboutboids
"The small size of this heron, somewhat smaller than a crow, its short cut-off tail, its general greenish-black color with a chestnut-colored throat and bluish-gray primaries make its recognition in the field easy.
The green heron is too interesting a bird to be used for a pot hunter's target as is often the case. He who is so fortunate as to have a breeding place for this bird near him should zealously guard it and he will learn many interesting and amusing traits and will be well rewarded.
Green Heron* Butorides virescens
*Original Source: Bent, Arthur Cleveland. 1927."