Day 266 - a Year by the Sea

September 24, 2007 by OrientSee.

Watching over Palermo Street by the edge of the marsh, this young lord of the air took his ease this morning. He was not bothered by me in the slightest and allowed me to approach very close. Of course all the sparrows were out of sight. He just sat there and preened himself. He was a vision. I also got to see a group of six Great Blue Herons. At first I was confused by these gray lumpy birds sitting out in the grass. I couldn’t imagine what they were. Then one of them unbended his neck and stretched up and up and up until it was obviously a mature Great Blue. The transformation from a dumpy pile of feathers to a majestic long necked elegant heron was breathe taking. A great morning at Belle Isle Marsh.

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