This wet bamboo sprout right at my eye level got my attention while I was waiting for the Barred Owl to do something.

Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, SC
May 24, 2024
This stand of Bamboo is drooping over a small pond making a perch for a Barred Owl to watch the water for food. After much waiting he dropped down and snatched a crayfish, action I did not capture.

When there is a little breeze these hollow Bamboo stalks make pleasing percussion sounds, and occasionally cause a concentrating photographer jump.