Heron in the garden !

This is the very nearest I've ever been to a heron, spotted it flying into the garden to the pond from the corner of my eye and then had to get the camera with zoom lens and try to stay out of its sight, distance with the wall and windows between us about 3 metres ! In mono for MonoMonday with its theme NEAR with thanks to 60plus for hosting this month. In autumn colours in the extras, I hope it didn't eat all our froggies and is now returning to see if there are any left !

Thanks so much for your kind comments,stars and even faves for yesterday's mosaic and the AT176 results, I do need to explain that the AndreaMosaic application/program does all the hard work though !