Finally we were able to take a morning hike, after painful home renovations. We spent most of our summer time outside biking, hiking and star gazing, so the renovation part was very hard to handle. Myself and my husband we always do almost everything together, including any local hiking or biking. We also work together, but this is a whole different story. Today, we decided to do bird watching more than biking. We made few stops. The first one started almost with nothing, but we patiently waited until we saw a Crow chasing a Red-Tailed Hawk, and then we got perfect photo shoot of the baby Cedar Waxwing that allowed me into territory as close as 1.5 meters. I am sure that this was Cedar Waxwing, but I will have to confirm that later. On the way home, we ended up watching a complete Great Blue Heron show, I mean real show at the McKenzie Marsh, Aurora, Ontario. At first, we saw three Great Blue Herons on the tree West of marsh, and as we got to the observation deck this is the list that we were able to see at the same time: 7 Great Blue Herons, 2 White Egrets, 2 Cormorants, 4 Caspian Terns, Unlimited Mallard Duck, 1 Swan, 1 Killdeer, 1 Sandpiper, and many other small birds like Starlings, Swallows, Red-Winged Black Birds - this was such a heaven of birds. We were able to capture some great photos of Great Blue Herons flying and I will be making a separate post about that, however, I got couple of Itchy and Scratchy theme photos on the way home from the exciting bird watching trip. Enjoy.