This was the scene at the Mall – the heron and cormorants were all congregated on this island along the edge right of center and a bit further away from us than the last time we were there. Hardly anybody was fishing, just sunning themselves on this unusually warm winter day.

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We stopped by the lake on the National Mall again to see if the heron had flown south. Much to our surprise, he was still there, along with quite a few cormorants, despite the bitterly cold weather we’ve had over the past week, although it was almost 70 degrees on that particular day (!).

I wasn’t too happy with many of the pictures I took – the Sony does well for zoomed close-ups but not so much for long distance bird shots, and I didn’t have a long lens with me for the D850 – but will post a few that I do like.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Bad hair day, posted earlier: