Great Blue Heron on Our Pond
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Warren, Connecticut. The most beautiful great blue heron I’ve ever seen landed on our pond today. He had a black pony tail and a "beard" of feathers in front the likes of which I’ve not seen in herons that land on our pond and he was big as herons go. He circled the pond on foot four times, catching a few fish and guzzling them down his skinny, long neck. It was raining so I moved camera and tripod from window to window trying to get the best shots of him. I wish I could talk to him and let him know that I’d never hurt him, touch him or do a thing to him and we could come to an agreement: he gets all the fish and frogs he can eat, I get all the pictures I want. Maybe in some other universe this is possible. One can hope.
Another view of the same image.
In this image he’s just eaten a small fish and its in the back of his mouth, on the way down his long throat.
Another view of the same image.
He continued looking for fish and found two more before he left.
Another view of the same image.
