This is the second time recently that we’ve stopped at Constitution Gardens on the National Mall-- without our cameras -- and the great blue heron was there. (Whenever we go prepared, he’s MIA.) Queenie has been angling for a car ride, so we took her there after walking around the Capitol grounds. She enjoyed it, but I was kicking myself for being so unprepared.

He was pretty far away, and my phone pictures aren’t big enough to crop a lot, but the heron is at left just in front of the grass.

Rainforest, FNQ, posted earlier: