This guy visits our pond occasionally...it's a Blue Heron (at least I'm pretty sure it is). It's always fun to see him come around and I am rarely able to get a picture of him. Even though he's across the pond I was able to zoom in on the camera and capture this shot. I'm fortunate to have a dad that knows so much about plants and animals and just a lot about nature in general. I feel that he educated us on the small things we see in our world. Growing up, he told us about so many things I probably would have never learned on my own or anywhere else. I don't know how many times I've said something dorky like "Oh, look at the turtle dove, isn't she pretty?" only to have a whoever is near (like a day care teacher in the turtle dove incident) say "Is that what that is? I never knew that."
We've got an empty lot next to us in our neighborhood and there are always Kildeer that make their nest there in the spring. Yes, right on the ground in a neat little pile of arranged rocks. The interesting thing about these birds is that if you get too close to the nest they will walk away from the area and sort of flutter on the ground. They are pretending to be injured in an attempt to attract the predator away from the nest of eggs. It's very interesting to watch but I sometimes feel bad if we're outside minding our own business and they carry on like that. It seems so unnecessary...but, I guess they do not know we don't want to hurt their nest.
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