Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you are having a really good day.
There are a bunch of creatures that look like ducks that come from time to time to Tallulah Lake to take up residence. Sometimes there are as many as 100 of them. They are solid black with white beaks and red eyes. Not bad looking for duck like birds, and they are good swimmers too. They are called coots.
Most of the time they are swimming about the lake in small groups, or by themselves. But once in a while they will all gather in a very tight group looking like a great big black blanket on the lake. They are so tight together you could drop a dime in the middle of them and it wouldn't hit the water, it would stay on a coot's back!
When this happens I will immediately look up, and be very careful. That's because there will be a hawk in the air. If a coot leaves the group, the hawk would easily dive down and swoop it up. If a coot tried to swim away under water, the hawk would just follow it and, when it came up for water, the hawk would get it.
But by staying in their tight group, the hawk doesn't dare try to get just one coot. It would get caught in the bunch of birds, not be able to fly away, and then drown.
Sometimes there can be safety in groups -- especially if the group is my 25 brothers.
Keep your chin up!
Robert P. Rabbit