An egret was the first bird shown in our “On Crystal Lake” series.
Walking home from the Lakeside Festival carnival on the night of June 24th, my sharp-eyed son said, “Dad! Look!”
He pointed to the outlet from Crystal Lake.
Since I had seen carp trying to get into Crystal Lake to spawn there and dead carp down stream earlier this month, I thought he might be pointing to a dead carp.
But, he wasn’t.
He has spotted a blue heron.
I didn’t get an excellent photograph of it, but I did get enough of an image for you to recognize it in flight.
You can enlarge the picture by clicking on the image.