Yesterday toward the end of my #birding, a great blue heron flew right toward me and landed in a tree almost above my head. 😳

I had to work to get a decent angle through the big branches — kneeling and angling up using the camera’s screen, and then even backing away — but I got some shots of this immature heron preening where I could practically feel the texture of eir feathers! Look how the breeding plumes are just growing in on the neck. 😃

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