I wanted to go birding, but the ground was covered with six inches of snow and the world was shut down from fear of Covid-19. In desperation, I spent a couple hours in the open space along Monument Branch. For the first hour, the sun was so bright and the snow so reflective that I thought I might go snow blind.
The birds were all the usual suspects. I unintentionally flushed a Great Blue Heron from the tiny pond down below the school. It flew up into a pine and hunkered down. I have plenty of photos of Great Blue Herons, so I didn’t make any particular effort, but when it allowed me to get within maybe 50 yards, I snapped off a few shots. One of them turned out pretty good.
The mottled background is snow and pines on the Rampart Range a couple miles away.