“A group of wading birds on the edge of the small lake decided I wasn’t a threat and foraged along the water’s edge in front of me. There were two adult White Ibises, two ibises in their first winter and a Little Blue Heron.  The young ibises were conspicuous with their brown wings, back and tail and a scaly gray head and neck.  Obviously the waders were used to people in the park. Possibly they instinctively knew that eagles, a real threat, avoided people.”  Read about these ibises in the Nature Observer’s Journal, February 21, 2012.