Mid morning is the start of their day in the fall. You can look along the edge of the reeds and cane and see nothing, look back a short while later and the locals are lined up getting sun.

Below on the left, that’s ‘Snaggle Tooth’. Look close and you will see why.
After a while you actually can recognize some of them.

When winter comes they will dig a hole back in grass and hunker down until a sunny day draws them. Then it looks like this again.

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