Driving home from Mass today we spotted the Great Blue Heron at the pond.  So, we went in to change and then grabbed the camera to try and get a picture of him.   I took some other photos along the way.

Summer at the pond

The other end of the pond.

The creek end of the pond.

The 3 geese families that live at the pond.

Gamer-boy posing with some goose feathers he found. That's Dino-boy running away.

At this point, we’d gone down to the pond, walked around a bit, and were feeling discouraged, because once again, the Great Blue Heron had eluded us.  Every year I say I’m going to get some pictures of him, but I never have the camera on hand when we see him, and when I purposely go to get pictures, he’s not there.  But as we went back home, I spotted him!

The Great Blue Heron

He was catching a fish, but that picture didn't come out at all.

I wish I could have gotten closer, but I didn't want him to fly away.

Isn’t he awesome?  I’d like to start going on regular nature walks with the kids.  We love taking nature walks, but for whatever reason, we never get around to it.  Even though today’s excursion was short, we had a lot of fun.