The Midnight Heron
Imagine my surprise last night!
It’s just after midnight and it was my turn to take JoJo the dog on her last constitutional of the day.
We were walking across the Locks towards Key West, where the lock closest to the Bermuda Place flats was empty for maintenance.
Something caught my eye, down there in the mud at the bottom of the lock. My heart raced though JoJo was too busy sniffing a patch of grass.
Then it took off; it’s wingspan seemingly too wide to enable it to safely get out. But with a graceful circle in the lock it came around and flew off.
It was a heron, obviously looking for a late-night fishy snack.
[...] an earlier blog post I wrote about seeing a heron in one of the locks at Eastbourne’s Sovereign Marina around [...]