We rode our bikes through Pond Apple Trail and then over to the new Jordan Marsh Water Quality Treatment Park (which needs a much shorter name, by the way). I had a chance to get a few photos in both places.

The Great Blue Heron below was one of the tallest ones I’ve seen. Maybe he just seemed so tall since was he wasn’t standing in water. They can grow to 4 1/2 feet tall and I think he was every bit of it! He had some mating plumage going on, too.

The blue ring around the eye of this Anhinga is part of their breeding plumage.

The blue ring wasn’t as bright on the eye of this Anhinga.

At the water treatment park, we saw this cute little family of ducks. Mom kept the babies safely in the weeds, so that getting photos of them was a difficult task.

I think that the next two Anhingas are juveniles. The first one is for sure.

And then back home where I was able to stand on my back deck to get this photo of a male osprey.

And from the same spot I saw these two Great Crested Flycatchers playing in the trees.