Safe for Now. Grey Heron and Bridge 232, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
For a minute I - your singing Frog, Rana Pipiens - hesitated. There it was on the west waterside of the Hortus, the hungry murderer of many kinfolk. But Grey Heron was turned away from the water searching the shrubbery for feathered fledglings. It prefers aquatic or semi-aquatic prey like Yours Truly, but I think 'pickings' were thin and Heron even ignored Fat Frog Me! With keen eyes it sought elsewhere. In any case, I was safe for now.
I plunged quietly and kicked my way to the pretty Bridge 232 - locked to the general public - leading to the so-called Overkas, the working greenhouse for the Hortus 'over the water' (on the right). That bridge was placed in 1877. Between 2016-2018 it was named for a Dutch hero against the Germans during WWII, Johan van Hulst, but that name was then given to nearby Bridge 233 (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/51642724527/in/photoli...).
Safe for Now. Grey Heron and Bridge 232, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
For a minute I - your singing Frog, Rana Pipiens - hesitated. There it was on the west waterside of the Hortus, the hungry murderer of many kinfolk. But Grey Heron was turned away from the water searching the shrubbery for feathered fledglings. It prefers aquatic or semi-aquatic prey like Yours Truly, but I think 'pickings' were thin and Heron even ignored Fat Frog Me! With keen eyes it sought elsewhere. In any case, I was safe for now.
I plunged quietly and kicked my way to the pretty Bridge 232 - locked to the general public - leading to the so-called Overkas, the working greenhouse for the Hortus 'over the water' (on the right). That bridge was placed in 1877. Between 2016-2018 it was named for a Dutch hero against the Germans during WWII, Johan van Hulst, but that name was then given to nearby Bridge 233 (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/51642724527/in/photoli...).