A selection of Various Birds
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The Friday night poker game were competitive--at stake were the top nest sites in the rookery. The lower nest sites always had sanitary issues from the nests above. This was serious poker . . .
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Ornithologists and scientists had known of crows and ravens using sticks to get ants out of ant holes, but Fredrick was the first Little Blue Heron they had observed using a stick to get crawdads out of the mud. Said Fredrick, "I ain't sticking my beak in that stuff . . ."
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Greg and Bill told Hercules, "Of course we tease and pinch you--you're Mom's favorite! You got the cool name, you get all the craw dads, and we just get tadpoles and mud minnows . . ."
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Eloise wished her deodorant would absorb or dry more quickly--she felt so sticky while waiting . . .
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The girls felt misunderstood; just because they got to the rookery first and got the top nest sites didn't mean they were looking down their noses at anyone . . .
