For the past several months, I've been spotting a most amazing blue heron. Its color is like a pastel sea blue and its beak looks ridiculously sharp and long; wouldn't want to be at the end of that! Maybe I'll take a photograph of it. Its wingspan is about 5-6 ft. easily and it glides so gracefully 4-5 ft. above water, with its neck just swaying back and forth a little in harmony with the motion of its giant wings. There are other times it's flying higher up, closer to the tree line and then it really looks like a pterodactyl. It's really a most ominous, and yet magnificent sight.
It often does these rounds where it will fly right along one edge of the tow-path, I'm guessing its hunting. I don't know how far it flies one way, but judging by how it comes back on the other side in a matter of 3-4 minutes, I'm guessing it could be a mile that it flies before turning around. Yesterday I saw it just idling by the edge waiting for fish. It's been nervous around me before but this time it did not stir at all as I ran past it, although it did crane (:P) its neck in my general direction just to be sure. It's also possible there are two of them, a couple, and well that'd be dandy innit, if we got to see heron pups.
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