Not tonight, I Have a Headache

We had parked the truck over to the side and witnessed an unusual 'meeting of the minds' of two herons apparently irritated by each other. The squabbling, and trying to lurch toward each other and did you know a heron can dodge pretty rapidly ? Unlike the loon who can take a breath of air in and submerse itself to appear further from where e or she was before, underwater. Not as skilled if your are a heron.

These two must have been 'married' for a long time cause I was taping the amusing fiasco and for some reason their performances got more profound. Their usually amicable I presume antics were now competetive races to the causeway. Races to a better lunch I figured as you saw hundreds of little jumping fish scatter in several directions. They neither calmed down nor took compassion in fighting over dinner, they each had enough yards from one another.

Almost as if a victory had been won by both sides and neither heron being hungry it was now a test for affection. Instead of moving closer the two herons drifted apart and turned away . . . as if to say, "I have a headache now just go away."

My photography partner and I giggled at how we as humans have not only learned from animals to be so 'animalistic' but that we as humans have taught animals to be so 'humanistic' . . . yikes an evolutionary foul-play ! Sandusky Ohio has a very large number of herons still left to observe in their comical adaptations of "The HoneyMooners".  I was lucky to watch this amusement in nature and not see a threat to their livelihood. It was comforting we care in Ohio . . .