In horse racing, a trifecta is nearly impossible to win, IE bet on the first, second and third place winner and get all three correct. Almost as impossible as winning the recent $1.6 billion-dollar Mega millions lottery. Can you imagine the thoughts going through that lucky winners mind last week? For me a trifecta is finding three birds on the Broward and capturing a “keeper” for all three.

My first-place trifecta winner was the Tricolored Heron. This particular bird is quite used to my presence as long as I approach it slowly and don’t try to get too close. Lately I have been getting a lot of full frame, close captures of this bird. The morning light has been truly painted by the master’s hand these past few weeks. Golden rays of the early morning cast a glow on this bird unlike few others I have seen lately. Shrimp was on the menu for breakfast. The second-place winner was Broward Bob, the Little Blue Heron. He too was feasting on shrimp as the outgoing tide revealed schools of shrimp in the receding waters. In third place was one of the Editors favorites, A Roseate Spoonbill feeding in the shallows also. There have been two on the river and I was hoping to get a fly by capture but was glad to get this one feeding close by.

Well, we may have not have won Trifecta horse race picks or the lottery, but the Editor and I did make a big win of sorts this weekend. We traveled to Lake Rhodiss North Carolina and found a perfect mountain lake lot to build a retirement get away and future home on. Lake Rhodiss is located near the Blue Ridge mountains between Asheville and Charlotte. The weather was perfect too. Time to start designing my dream log cabin homesite. I plan to do some fishing there too as soon as we can. Maybe I will have a whopper of a tale to tell and find some new feathered friends.

If you really want to have the Trifecta of life though remember these three things: Faith, Hope and Love. I had Faith in my ability to take the photographs well, Hope that the birds would be there and in good light and a Love only the Maker can give to share these treasures with you. And the greatest of all is that love. Blessings

First place winner in the Trifecta is my Tricolored Heron, posing on the deck rail for me in the early morning light. He is one of my Faithful buddies on the Broward.

**Time to greet the morning and find some breakfast..**

**Did I use wing pit deodorant this morning?**

**It does not get any fresher than this shrimp snack**

**Broward Bob, the Little Blue Heron flies in for breakfast for second place …**

**I hope you enjoy seeing Bob as much as I did..**

**Bob begins to bobble and gobble for shrimp too..**

**Last but not least of the trifecta is Rosy the Roseate Spoonbill**

Who ate all the shrimp? Don’t you just love that face?

Reflections on Broward is now "Mountain Musings"

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