Four Saturday afternoon sketches and a video treat

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black-collared hawk, capped heron, cocoi heron, Pantanal, wetlands, Whistling duck

Sketch number one: A great black-hawk retrieving a fish Sketch number two: White-faced whistling ducks.  Yes, I know they don’t seem to have white faces.  Must be the light, or the season, or something.Sketch number three: A Cocoi heron retrieving a fish The hawk used its talons, the heron its beak.

Sketch number four:  the line on the trees shows how high the waters rise in the wet season, perhaps 8 feet or so.

Yes, the fish were thrown by the boatmen.  But this video, again by Dave Allen, has no artifice.  It is of that gorgeous male Capped heron we saw courting the other day.

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