A great blue heron, Ardea herodias, keeps a watchful eye as it stands on the mooring can near the bait barge, Santa Barbara Harbor.
Abstract sculpture?  A feathery assemblage?  No, it's Ardea herodias, the great blue heron, asleep, one-legged on a piling in Santa Barbara Harbor.
A great blue heron, Ardea herodias, keeps a watchful eye as it stands on the mooring can near the bait barge, Santa Barbara Harbor.
A great blue heron, Ardea herodias, keeps a watchful eye as it stands on the mooring can near the bait barge, Santa Barbara Harbor.
A great blue heron, Ardea herodias, keeps a watchful eye as it stands on the mooring can near the bait barge, Santa Barbara Harbor.
See photo in original gallery.