Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias - hardly a new entry on these pages, but this was an unusual posture I had not observed before.

I hate to say it, but it reminded me of my college days when I worked the overnight shift at Peoples Drug Store #188. (I know, it sounds like a Soviet state enterprise, but this was in Charlotttesville, Virginia.) Twice on nights when I was working there were "flasher" incidents in the parking lot. The way the wings are held here seemed rather like one of those deranged fellows opening his raincoat before an unwilling audience.