We also ran into a bullfrog big enough to choke an egret, as you can tell from its photo. |
The tilapia's numerous small bones can choke its predators, even the egret, which can swallow all other fish. |
Others have made themselves welcome recently – the rose-ringed parakeet, the egret and the collared dove among them. |
Out there, among the cypress and the palm, where the alligator solitarily glides and the egret sails in chevron, sanctuary beckoned. |
We saw hippo and elephant but for me highlights were a rare slaty egret, an in-your-face look at a marabou stork standing over a single egg on its head-high nest. |
Many an egret has cursedly cawed my name as it rose slowly over the little lake. |