Even got a video, albeit from a poor angle. (never tried video on mastodon before, hopefully it doesn’t die of compression)
awoo.space/media/59haJge-77x3h

@leafnoodle Looks somewhat like a great blue heron to me, but i'm not sure if there are others similar to it...

@mallaidh ah, you’re totally right! we have those here but I dismissed it because none of the blue was visible.

I thought they were usually more skittish, too.

@leafnoodle Pretty sure that's a juvenile blue heron! You can see the distinctive head stripe starting to form where its adult plumage is coming in.

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