Mistaken Identity? Yes & No

For the second day running we awoke to a frosty morning with clear skies and a brilliant yellow object shining down on us. Just the day for a brisk walk I thought so wrapped up warm I set off to enjoy the moment. The scarf and gloves didn't last long and I was soon unfastening my coat too. You could almost believe it was spring. As I was walking I saw from a distance at the top of a tree a whitish object with what looked like orange legs. "Could it be a heron?" I thought. Even looking at the object through the camera at maximum zoom I still couldn't be sure. When I did get close enough the object turned out to be two white balloons with orange strings but I wasn't disappointed for long as I turned a corner there in a field stood a statue-like figure and sure enough it was a heron.


I couldn't get close to it so once again resorted to employing the full zoom on the camera for the above picture. I think it was camera shy for as soon as I had taken this image it took off and flew away in the opposite direction.