Show us where you paddled today thread:

[Cataboo]

Great pics - I wish I'd paddled more in Michigan, but there were 25 mph winds when I was there and my wrists were on their last legs.

Zen - I wanna see heron pics, I very rarely manage a close up.

Pictured rocks:

[Zen]

Bird is the word


you can see the bendy legs
Snakeskin

i knew that bird was going to take flight and still missed the shot

[Zen]

http://www.rei.com/adventures/trips/weekend/edo.html

I like how they call them "timid" alligators.

[NoNo]

Awesome close-ups of the heron! I saw one in Canada but it wanted nothing to do with me.

[Zen]

That bendy backwards leg is so freaky. It's like she has an extra joint.

[Cataboo]

Great pics of the herons, Zen - if you paddle on the Potomac around dc, the herons are so used to humans they will let you get quite close without moving.

Herons always make the bird/dinosaur/reptile link look very obvious to me.

I finally wrote up a trip report - it'll have a lot of the same pics I posted here:
http://cpakayaker.com/forums/viewtop...3833d1348bcb8d

[tulip]

I was paddling in the Northern Neck over the weekend (no pics sorry) and a Great Blue Heron was on a low branch and swooped right over my head, croaking like they do. I about fell in the water. They are huge up close, and very pterodactyl-like.

[Zen]

Herons always make the bird/dinosaur/reptile link look very obvious to me.

hump-backed dinosaurs yields clues to origin of birds