Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Duck Butts

The wildlife manager at the Bosque presented a wonderful program about the water birds that frequent this area. There are "wet butts" and "dry butts" - check out how the tails ride in the water when the birds are swimming. The other amazing thing - the duck-like birds can all feed cooperatively together peacefully, because they are all eating something different. Some eat the clams at the bottom of the marshes. Some eat fish, others eat the tubers of the water plants.

After the program I went out to the refuge. I think it will get easier to identify these birds. There will also be field trips related to this seminar. Unfortunately, they are all full for this year.

Tomorrow morning is an early morning - I'll need to be at the Bosque at 5:30 for Black-belt Birding.

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