Off to Work

After preening it's feathers while standing on the muskrat den, the great blue heron decides it's time to fill it's belly and flies over to the shallows for fishing.

On take off the heron scared a carp (note disturbance in water just in front of and below the bird), and it landed on another carp near shore a few seconds later.  The carp weigh as much as a 5 pound great blue heron, and are too big for the heron to catch.