Whoa. I’m standing there in my customary nicotine spot by the canal, watching the geese, the coots, the ripples on the water, and looking out for fish. I’ve seen the same young pike in the canal three or four times now, and I was thinking, you don’t see any herons around here. And then I look up, and perched right across the canal, not fifty yards away, there’s a big grey heron, pretty much as illustrated. Magnificent creature. Now seriously, I’ve been working here since November, and not once have I seen a heron on these waters, until *the very moment* that I think to myself, hmmm, you don’t see them round here…
NOTE: this was originally posted on 28th March, as is still reflected in the archives. If you’ve been over this site in the past few days you may have noticed that the whole thing got into a terrible tangle, and the original post was deleted – kind of – during one of several attempts to clean up the mess.