Last year I was amazed to find Green Herons living and nesting at two ponds within the village limits of Kennebunk. This is one of a pair that nests in the drainage ponds on an industrial estate (now converted to a hospital and fitness complex), a few hundred yards from US1, and right behind one of the two shopping centers in town. They have returned this year, and are, if anything, even more active and visible around the ponds. If, in my dragonfly hunting, I get too close to one at the pond edge, they just fly up to these snags in the a mini-wetland that has formed behind the berm that protects the parking lots of the estate.

No matter the setting, the Green Heron is a handsome bird! This one appears to fully aware of it too.

Canon SX50HS with my usual modifications to Program. 1200mm equivalent field of view. f6.5 @ 1/1000th @ ISO 640. Processed in Lightroom. Cropped slightly for scale and composition.