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This beautiful bird isn’t in the least afraid of people and it allowed me to come very close to photograph it.

Then some nasty kids started scaring the bird and trying to chase it away while their parents stood by and grinned stupidly. Horrible children always come from horrible parents.

American children are almost without exception well-behaved and not annoying. But these were tourists, and their children were unexpectedly horrible.

4 responses to “Beach Observations”

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    Anonymous

    Poor bird! I hope they came back after the family left 😦

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  2. cliff arroyo Avatar

    “Then some nasty kids started scaring the bird and trying to chase it away”

    I blame the welfare state….

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    Jones

    Here’s what I’d like to have happen to kids like that …

    (courtesy of Banksy’s “Dismaland”, now playing at the Tropicana in Weston-super-Mare …)

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    Jones

    BTW, did you make it over to Sanibel Island when you were in Fort Myers?

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