Great Blue Heron

Wednesday afternoon we took advantage of another beautiful day and had a picnic lunch at Duke Gardens. We brought some bread for the ducks who were uncharacteristically uninterested, so we fed most of it to the catfish in the pond (I'm not sure if that's what they really are, but they're certainly fish with "whiskers"). Then Norman spotted the heron sitting further down the path. We slowly ambled closer, taking pictures as we went just in case it decided to fly away. We wound up remarkably close before an obnoxious boy came by and intentionally scared it away by repeatedly hitting the branches of the tree it was beneath.






What a magnificent bird!