The Anhinga are odd. They have paddle-like feet that make it awkward for them to land in trees. When they go swimming, they look like a snake gliding with half it’s body out of the water. They dry their wet, raggedy looking wings by spreading them wide in the sun. Funny, I don’t see them in the rain. But when they fly overhead as I fish, they land on the pine tree quite clumsily wrapping those feet-paddles around a branch tightly and squawk loudly as if to say, “whoa, that was close.”
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July 30, 2008 at 2:59 pm
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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT! I didn’t notice my “star billing” for a while because I was so busy looking at the pictures. Are the crane and anhinga touching beaks? What kind of exchange was that? Friendly? The shot on the boat is a view you rarely see of an anhinga, with all its clumbsy awkwardness while perching.
They certainly have their crosses to bear–wings that don’t repel water, feet that are great in water, but not trees and their propensity to look like a snake. It’s the imperfections that make them perfect.