I was taking pictures of roseate spoonbills — regrettably, too far away to be great shots — and I turned around just in time to catch a great blue heron in a pond on the other side of the road, just as he was just in time to catch his next snack.
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Video of the Week: “It was an ambush!”
Leeloo whups a bunch of armed and nasty aliens, unarmed and all by her own self.
The quote is at timestamp 1:43.
Poetry of the Week
On Tender Hooks
- by Brian BilstonLet me cut to the cheese:
every time you open your mouth,
I’m on tender hooks.You charge at the English language
like a bowl in a china shop.
Please nip it in the butt.On the spurt of the moment,
the phrases tumble out.
It’s time you gave up the goat.Curve your enthusiasm.
Don’t give them free range.
The chickens will come home to roast.Now you are in high dungeon.
You think me a damp squid:
on your phrases I shouldn’t impose.But they spread like wildflowers
in a doggy-dog world,
and your spear of influence grows.Posted: 2025 Apr 20
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What a magnificent picture!
Tom
Tom – Thanks!
Terrific !
Ralph – Thanks! I was pretty tickled.
I’m, like, WOW! Fantastic photo!
Marilyn – Many thanks.
Isabel – now the question is what is he/she snacking on?
John – A fissshy of some sort.
Great photos, Isabel, Even though some may be enhanced!
Marilyn – Thanks! Having a ball . . .
Nice catch Isabel – so many times the best picture if the one behind me…..
Jim R – Yeah. A photographer on our Scotland trip in 2012 talked about that, so I do try to remember to turn around!