Doug had seen some chicks not too long ago, cute fuzzy babes that would run through the grasses like a water bug.
We went to the observation deck and waited. And waited. And...well, yes, we waited. About 30 minutes. Then the parent Virginia Rail came out of the grasses. That is cool enough but then a baby appeared - a tiny little black fluff just at the grass edge. Then ZOOM! Baby was running and across the opening and into the grasses again before you could even think about saying "Jack Robinson" or even ... "hey, there's the baby!"
Somehow though, in that second of hesitation before baby took off a running, I snapped this picture.
Cute little thing, isn't it? Soon after this, the other parent came out, and at least 4 more chicks made the mad dash across to the grasses. Doug got a couple shots off of them, but I only got this one. Fast little stinkers.
Well, that is how it is some days, you get one decent shot of a bird and then, you take pictures of flowers. I found a new photo "tweaking" tool called Be Funky. It is a freebie one at the Chrome app store. I like how you can frame pictures like a postage stamp, so here are a couple I played with.
White Flowers.
Purple-blue flowers. OK, yeah, one day I'll figure out the name of flowers.
It's May now so all the trails at the refuges are open so get out there and see some birds and blooms, y'all!!
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