A pair of White Ibis appears to touch beaks in a “V” for Victory sign, celebrating their catch. They spent most of an hour sating themselves with whatever they found in a tiny, isolated puddle of water on the beach far from the edge of the surf in Grand Isle, Louisiana. They feasted mostly on minuscule fish, no more than an inch or so long, that were stranded in the tiny pond. What fascinated me was that time and time again, as I watched them scoop up a fish and flip it up into their beaks, they often as not dropped the fish and scrambled furiously to retrieve it, usually unsuccessfully. Wild nature is a strange and wonderful thing to observe.