So beautiful!

They have such a distinctive profile in flight. You'd be amazed at how good they are at finding ornamental ponds - I've had them visit my little puddle!

One thinks of a heron as a slow, deliberate stalker...if this was a crow chick, I wonder if it was still in the nest or maybe out on a limb or even on the ground. If the move was made on a chick still in the nest high in a tree this would totally rewrite the way I think of herons going about getting their meals. As many pairs of crow eyes as there are back there, this was one bold heron thanks for the link...I'm on dial-up so YT is a pain for us, but I will set it up late one night and let it download this one.

here is a shot of a great egret. notice that the egret has black legs and a thinner and brighter bill