Taking the Bait

One morning, Hunter called me to come look over the porch. He was downstairs gathering bait for the weekend fishing trip and he had a visitor.

I ran into the house and scooped up Caroline (who was still asleep) to watch Hunter feed "George" the Great Egret. As Hunter was culling the bait into things he could use for the weekend and things he couldn't, George would walk over, often within feet of Hunter, and snatch the culled fish and shrimp. This was obviously not a new trick for George since he seemed fairly tame and did not fly off when Hunter spoke, or when Caroline yelled down to "do it again."

George was also not too picky about where he got his next meal from. He would pick them up off the dock or help himself.

At some point Caroline had to be part of the action and went down to help. George ate all the bait that morning so Hunter put the shrimp trap back out. After that, every day Caroline would help bag up the bait and throw the rest to George.