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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ceasar" data-source="post: 3344977" data-attributes="member: 26155">A few years back a friend of mine related this incident to me while we were having a beer.B <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />   His wife had come back to their house after taking a walk along a nearby trout stream in Blakeslee, PA which is in the Poconos and she was quite upset.  She said; "Joe, I just saw one of those "prehistoric" birds flying up the creek.  I thought they were extinct!"  Except for caring for the Humming Birds which fed at the feeders on their deck she wasn't a birder.  Neither was Joe, but he was a trout fisherman and he knew the bird was a Great Blue Heron.I have seen them silently flying up the centers of streams I fished and they do have a primeval look about them.Bob</blockquote>