It is interesting to watch them so intently stalking their prey.
Last year I got two pictures of an Egret eating a little turtle, I had no idea that turtles were part of their diet! The bird was in a neighbors yard down the way and I just figured it had a fish until I uploaded the photo's and zoomed in. What a surprise to see it was a small turtle!
Egrets are also opportunists. We were out on our boat a couple of years ago and saw a fisherman who'd left his boat and was fishing along the shoreline a good distance away. He hadn't covered his bait bucket and an Egret was feasting on the little bait fish:
~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt!
~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot!
