Nature Done Wright

    I’m not sure if you can have a "heron fest" with just one great blue heron, but this guy is a treat.
    He’s likely the same guy I’ve seen of late in the Allendale Brook and on Lake Appert, but he just seems more prominent these days.
   From my window yesterday afernoon, I saw huge dark wings landing on the lake, and I had to rush out to see what it was.
   "It" was the heron, who was coolly, calmly, methodically walking across the ice. Almost like on a stroll.
   This morning, as I was walking around the farm at dawn, I met up with a friend by No-Name Culvert.
   We were talking softly when all of a sudden there was this great commotion by the culvert on the lake side.
    I
grabbed the camera, pointed and shot, and came up with some images of
the great blue heron taking wing — water dripping from his feet.
    He landed nearby and did his heron thing. And I did my camera thing. (Click on the photos for larger views; this blog service makes loading images a time-consuming challenge.)
   At one point it looked liked he was doing some sort of semaphore schtik with his wings.