Great Blue over Spaulding

I launched this humble blog in late-June 2013, and my third post, in what I figured was a labor of love that wouldn't last all that long, was a shot of an airborne Great Blue Heron that was cruising over the millpond I visit several times a week. To my great surprise and, I hope, at least a few viewers' delight, I'm still at it, so I suppose that this shot of a Great Blue, cruising over almost the same spot, is a kind of two-year anniversary of an effort that would appear to have legs. (I know the dates here don't quite jibe, but I did, for family reasons, have to take last December off from blogging, so it's been two working years, more or less.) This Great Blue has been hanging around the pond for the past few days, but this evening, when I walked there after dinner in the gathering twilight, the bird must have been fishing in the trout pool at the bottom of the waterfall. I had a feeling that it might be, so I was ready with my camera when I made my approach and the heron took to the air. Usually, all I get is a fine image of feet and wings receding into the distance. This time, I did better. Maybe I've learned a thing or two in the past couple of years.