American Coot
To someone that doesn’t normally get to see the American Coot, I truly enjoyed myself watching them as if they were a rare bird! Of course, they are not that rare and when they do show up they don’t let me to photograph them like what I captured here. Lucky we found two individuals that let us sneak up on them and watch them feeding around the docks. It was soo cute; they were slowly bopping up and down in the water looking for some vegetation to eat! Sibley stated that they floated like a cork! I could see that for sure with these birds!
When I first saw them, I couldn’t figure out what the heck they were doing! Then I realized that they were picking the vegetation growing along the dock’s edge! But, not all of the coots that we saw were feeding on the docks edge. A good majority of them were feeding on some kind of vegetation (probably seaweed of some kind) or maybe some small fish. I just couldn’t get enough of these American “cutes” and I just had to make them their own post!
Such an interesting bird, wish they would come inland more!
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