Great Blue Heron

LOL, if you only knew just how far away this Great Blue Heron was, then you'd understand! I so rarely see Great Blue Herons, and often in flight, so decided to post this very distant, very heavily cropped image that I took at Lafarge Meadows, Fish Creek Park, on November 4th. On our walk back to the parking lot, my friends spotted a mystery "something" in a distant tree. When I looked in that direction (but got the wrong tree), I saw something sticking up from a long branch and assumed that this "object" was what everyone else was looking at. Turned out that their "something" was just part of a tree, but my "something" turned out to be a Great Blue Heron, LOL!! Out in the open on a branch near the Bow River, but oh so far away : ) Lovely to see it just seemingly enjoying the sun's warmth.