you can’t believe everything nature guides tell you.
She said these waterfowl are anti-social, that one of
the ways to know you are spotting one was, it will be
solitary. And it was borne out. For the next few weeks,
every time I saw a lone black bird that I thought might
be a cormorant, once I sited through my binocs, sure
enough – the snake-like neck, the sharp beak, the awk-
ward ducklike stance – showed it to be an anhinga.
Croaking hoarsely further identifies this odd fowl that
also swims underwater to spear fish with just its head
out – hence its nickname, snakebird - the anhinga is
weirdly intriguing.
. *From E.Bachinsky’s poem St.Sarah II from the book
Home of Sudden Service.
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