Here's my entry for this week's Show Me A Photo contest in the Feathered Friends community - the theme is WINGS. I'm glad for this prompt because it nudged me to finally spend some time processing photos

we live alongside a creek, and there are some swampy areas and a small man-made lake nearby. so at least once a year we see a heron stop by our yard, usually in late summer/early fall - maybe the easier

photographed late summer 2020 in North Carolina, USA. i love these birds for their funny, yowling calls (the reason for their name). last summer i tried over and over to catch one of them eating from the

photographed early september 2020 in North Carolina, US. i believe the plant is some variety of smartweed.