And that's exactly what the egrets and great blue herons in the following photos were doing at West Neck Creek Marina earlier today when my friend, Rob Chatham, happened along with his phone camera. Seems these two species were "chowin' down" on everything in sight in what little water that's left after a week of nothing but strong northeast winds.
As you can see here, Rob's photo mission coincided with one of the heavier periods of rain that have been blanketing the area off and on for the past several days...with more predicted yet into the coming weekend.
Ditto for the rain in this photo, as well. The thing that Rob and I had a good laugh about was the fact that, if these birds aren't careful, they may have to pay a price for all this unfettered feeding. Who's to say that, after so much gorging, some of these "lard butts" won't start having difficulty getting airborne? Their flights might resemble those ol' movies showing some test flights of the earliest airplanes man built...you know the kind...where the plane only would get a few feet off the ground, before it touched back down, then bounced back up again...and so on, and so on.
All joking aside, though, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that, after looking at photos like these three, it still will be days before there is any appreciable depth of water in any part of West Neck Creek. This nor'easter truly has been one for the record books.
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