"Least Bittern"
11x14 marker & ink on paper
A new arrival to our creek, the Least Bittern, has been surreptitiously clambering about the grasses and reeds that grow along the shore. It is slender and pretty, a very tiny member of the Heron family. One day, it planted itself right at my feet, hunched down, intent on fishing within the protective screen of water reeds but when it caught sight of me it stretched itself up tall, pointing its beak to the sky, as if to say: “See me become a water reed?” Nature is so very enchanting.
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