Heron Gets His Breakfast

While hot during the day, Arizona freezes at night. I wake early to reflections on the lake.

This Great Blue Heron takes off in search of something substantial for breakfast, something that’s going to stick to the ribs.

I follow to see if I can’t get a better photograph, and find it still consumed by the search for breakfast, staring intently at something in the grass…

Then he pokes his beak innocently into the grass and Boom! A high protein breakfast in the form of an unlucky mouse who’s time has come to a painful end.

In a less violent search for food the American Coot looks calm with its red eyes.

And the red-winged blackbird sang the morning in….

Rohan