great Blue

This is the best picture I got of a Great blue heron all week! There is a family of them that fish our shoreline, but they are very suspicious of humans with cameras. They are sharp eyed and don't buy into your "pretending you are a tree" acting job.
I love this weathervane, but somehow I don't think it would fly as well in the middle of the SD prairie as it does on our friends' roof overlooking Lake Champlain.