Littoral zone

I walked on Marrowstone Island yesterday, south from East Beach. There was a super low tide, to -3.38 at 1:07 pm. When the tide came in, it was at +8.76, so that is a huge difference.

There were almost no people, but the group enjoying the low tide were the great blue herons! I counted 14. At one point they all alerted, and a bald eagle came down and perched on the rock that a heron had been on. There must be some very delicious food for the herons with the low tide. The eagle seemed to be considering heron to be a delicacy.

Here is the eagle (and the great blue herons moved!)

I came home with one very lovely agate.

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: littoral.

4 thoughts on “Littoral zone

  1. Beautiful photos, video and agate.

  2. lois's avatar lois says:

    Herons are so beautiful how they glide.

    • drkottaway's avatar drkottaway says:

      And look darn silly in trees.

      • lois's avatar lois says:

        haha! Herons don’t go in trees here in my part of Florida. They are too busy hanging around the fishermen waiting to ‘help’ them unhook their catch.

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