Light On Dark Water

I walked out the door one day last week and heard a repeated low buzzing sound that I’d never heard before. I finally realized that it was coming from this heron perched in a dead tree across the creek. The normal heron noise is loud and ugly—something like a crow’s call but lower in pitch and considerably louder (these are big birds, if you can’t tell from the picture—probably something like 5ft/1.5m in wingspan). It can be a little alarming if you get close to one without seeing it and it suddenly leaps screaming into the air. I don’t know what the low sound was about.

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Now that I have a camera, I want a better one. I wanted to zoom in further than this, and the auto-focus is kind of unreliable—this really should have been sharper.

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