Great Blue Heron at Red Oaks Mill Dam

A Great Blue Heron kept watch over us from the decaying spillway as we walked along on Old Mill Road:

Heron at Red Oaks Mill Dam - spillway
Heron at Red Oaks Mill Dam – spillway

A mid-stream perch provided a better vantage point:

Heron at Red Oaks Mill Dam - midstream
Heron at Red Oaks Mill Dam – midstream

The concrete slab in the lower right corner came from the dam breast.

The camera never lies, but if you could look upward just a bit, you’d see the unending stream of cars passing by on Red Oaks Mill Road at the Rt 376 intersection …