October 27, 2026
Monday Mystery Answered
On Monday I wrote… Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the…
Everybody thinks of those head-bobbing coots in the Celery Farm as docile to the point of dopey.
But as my friend Kevin Watson wrote recently to the Fyke list-serve, he saw "some unsavory characters" near the Warden’s Watch who turned out to be … you know who[m].
http://kevinwatsonphoto.com/v
What’s more, my other friend Jerry Barrack caught this wild coot/gull action at the CF recently.
Dopey? Docile? No way.
Thanks, guys.
Great action shots! From those shots it seem like the Gull was the agressor and that poor old Coot was just trying to defend himself.
Vern
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Vern
Great action shots! From those shots it seem like the Gull was the agressor and that poor old Coot was just trying to defend himself.
Vern