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Byline: Sam Cook
DULUTH, Minn. _ Two of us were walking along a creek not far from home the other evening when a great blue heron swooped into our lives. The creek flows through an open, marshy area, so we saw the heron coming for several slow flaps of its wings.
I could watch herons a long time because they're reminiscent of pterodactyls. It isn't hard, watching the approach of a great blue, to imagine a brontosaurus grazing the treetops somewhere just beyond the creek.
The heron kept coming our way until it finally saw us. Herons don't do anything fast, but this one did his best midair cartoon-character-over-the-cliff stop. He hit the brakes ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Hearts soar with the birds.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)