Mark Dorn writes, “A morning coffee time visitor to the Village at Trippe Lake: a Great Blue Heron on Thursday!”

(I identified the bird utilizing the Cornell Labs Merlin app). 

Our thanks to Mark Dorn for another beautiful nature photo.

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