Giving You The Bird

What can I say?  I like herons. And this one that I espied in the Halifax Public Gardens last October was heroically heronic.

I like it when they arch the neck in that classic s-curve,

or maybe it's more like a cedilla hanging off a French "c."

Here, that snaky neck is more elongated, 

but still pleasingly curvy...

stretching a little further, but still graceful, don't you think?

(reminds me of my old ballet teacher's admonitions to stretch our necks long)

The almost perpendicular pose is not without appeal.

Front on doesn't really capture a heron's best features,

but I thought the reflection made the picture interesting.

Oh, now he's got his feathers ruffled, in a huff due to the previous less-than-flattering photo.

Well! he's giving us the bum's rush
and mooning us at the same time!

Never mind, he only flew to the other side of the pond where I was able to get a few more, more flattering shots of him to feather my blog with.

I do hope, my fine feathered friends, that you will come flocking back to see them in a few days' time.