Great Blue Heron: Wells, Maine, USA — I would not call a Great Blue Heron beautiful…though I recognize its beauty. I think “handsome” is a better word. This handsome Heron was hunting frogs around a drainage pond on the Senior Condos complex behind US1 just over the Wells line. I got off my bike to look for dragonflies and might have missed the heron if it had not moved. I was certainly not looking for it and it was way down the other end of the pond. It was not bothered by me there, and allowed me to walk down quite close to it, in relative terms. I might have been able to get closer, but I did not want to flush it. There are a lot of frogs in that pond, and I wished the heron all the success it deserved. 🙂 Sony Rx10iv at 600mm equivalent. This is a portrait exposure, so pretty much full frame. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Polarr and Apple Photos.