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| Image 140210-033.jpg American Coots take flight |
Watching a flock of American Coots take off from Bayou Copasaw in
the Terrebonne Parish marsh yesterday made me wonder if the birds were thinking
it's time to go north and find their nesting grounds. Those chunky black birds use churning feet
and short wings to take off the water like a turbo prop plane on a runway. They
need to think twice before flying away, we got another cold snap here, and it's
still icy up north!
I had the shivers in the damp cold yesterday even when it
peaked to 70 degrees. We were traveling at 30 mph in Steve Uffman’s bay boat
over water that was 48 degrees, burrrrr!
