A Snowbird in Paradise

There I was talking to the stork today when he decided I had moved close enough and he took off. I was fast enough this time to get the above shot. Oh, he was back in an hour or so. There is a stack of cans of sardines in the cupboard so I opened one of those and put them out in the grass for him. He kept eating one, then snapping that big beak...as if smacking his lips. I am not about to feed him by hand with that beak!

A POSTSCRIPT: I sent this photo in to the Scripps newspaper for our area and it was published in the Photos by our Readers column.