Something has caught the heron’s attention. Maybe it’s all the gawkers coming to see him now that he’s a celebrity, thanks to The Washington Post (not).

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

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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 (!).

Rear view, posted earlier: