You're About to be Redirected to the New Home of Ground Control to Major Mom: Florida Discoveries 15: Great Blue Heron in Action!

First of all, I learned that it's "heron" and not "huron". Oops. I was wondering why my Google searches kept directing me to Michigan-related websites...

Last night Dave and I went on a good old fashioned DATE! The kids are visiting grandparents in the northeast through next weekend, and even though Dave's hard at work these two weeks, we had a fantastic weekend! Yesterday we went tubing on a creek in the northern part of the Florida Panhandle, then we went parasailing and wrapped up the evening with a delightful steamed seafood dinner. I'll be blogging about our parasailing next, but for now I wanted to share this cool series of iPhone pictures I took of this Great Blue Heron* enjoying some fish. I didn't have my good camera with me, since I didn't want to lose it on the parasailing boat.

I thanked the family who bought the fish feed that lured the fish for the bird to eat...

*Yes, I'm capitalizing the full name of this species of bird, per this journal article.

He started out on the dock, staring intently at a patch of water near the public fish food machine.

Staring hard...

Now he's on a floating platform just below the fish feed machine...he moved to this spot after a kid put 50 cents in the machine and got a handful of fish food.