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This Heron came every day for a little over a week in September, he would hunt for rodents in the lawn and walk about the property, some days staying for a few hours. Since then he comes back about once a week. His behavior is very unusual. One day in September, he walked from about near where he is in this picture right up to our house. I had the door open and he stood 12 feet away from me, looking right at me through the screen, he then walked over to two other Adirondack chairs we had, then down our stone path to look at our gazebo. A few days later I saw him at our pond, I turned away and decided to work in our formal garden so as not to bother him, about an hour later I was looking down and I saw a large shadow over me- I looked up and the heron was about 20 feet directly over me-Amazing! Now as you can see he has made himself at home.