The Little Blue Heron

The highlight of my walk yesterday was when I happened on a little blue heron as I was not far from completing the walk. It is called a little blue heron even though it is actually fairly large as birds go. The little blue heron is, however, smaller than the great blue heron:

As you can see, the little blue heron was minding its own business. One of the things I have noticed about the larger river birds is that they tend to be territorial at least to some extent, staking out their own section of the river. I had lowered my camera preparing to continue my walk when an egret about thirty yards upstream took flight heading straight for the little blue egret:

The egret aggressively chased the heron, but the heron seemed unfazed as it walked into the cattail growing along the river bank. The egret backed off its attack.