Green Heron

Herons are great.

There is a Great Blue Heron I see when we bike ride back a dark wooded trail. I often find it by a small stream; it hears me coming before I see it, so typically it is already beginning its flight away, not appreciating my company. Although I can't say it is always the same heron, but I've been spotting a bird in the same place for two years now.

Watching the Great Blue fly is really marvelous.

This Green Heron was hanging in some still water near one of the trails near our home. It skulked along, dipping its head for food while giving me and a nearby dog/owner the stink-eye, extending its neck nearly a foot high to keep watch on us. I saw it two days in a row; perhaps he'll be part of my biking routine as well.