Just a crazy photo I took with my phone today while shopping for dinner in Half Moon Bay’s Princeton Harbor. 
Between the fishermen’s loot (the crab season apparently just started), the seagulls and the pelicans, there is a lot of instagram material there… (Do you follow feralgardener on instagram?)
The birds are constantly on alert for a fresh load of fish processing refuse that comes regularly. Here, I even took a short video of one such fascinating fish waste feast:
Pelicans feast on fish waste at Princeton Harbor
2. They reach very impressive heights. You can even try using them as a natural trellis for pole beans, as I did this year. Just don’t plant bush beans instead, as I did, due to not labeling last year’s seeds, thinking that, of course, I’ll remember everything…
3. Even at times when your garden looks like a total dump (which is obviously not the case here), they create instant rustic charm, making you think: where am I? Is this Provence? Kansas? Ukraine?
4. They look great in a vase (not the case here either). I just saw that FreshDirect sells them for $19.99 a bunch. Just imagine all the savings!
5. Waiting for tomatoes to ripen (when it’s already August!!!) is much more bearable when you have pretty sunflowers to look at.
We were watching it through binoculars and it was, indeed, great. And blue-ish. Too bad my camera didn’t provide a better zoom. The heron walked around a bit, studying the landscape, then picked up a dead frog (or, possibly, a toad — there’s a few dead toads after their annual mating party, which we seem to have missed this year, luckily) out of the water and immediately spat it out.
When I tried to get a little closer, it flew away. I never got a chance to find out what was wrong with its food.
So much for bird watching and wildlife photography.
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