Texas Now Magazine February 2014 | Page 29

ing junior––they were fetching for themselves. As a result, we were scoring some captivating images of the chick attempting to steal his parents’ catch. Beak to beak, the chick tried to grab a crab from his parents. However, when he was successful, he then dropped it! Oh, how hard it can be to learn the ways of the world. We were again on the Jack Flash of Aransas Bay Birding Charters run by Captain Kevin Sims (see Texas NOW March 2013, April 2013 and May 2013). What had begun as a drizzly, dreary day in December had suddenl 䁉