The HERON (hard of hearing, please note, not to be confused with a Herring) is splendidly eccentric-looking.
Here, it is doing a one-legged Yoga posture. Show-off!
Or perhaps it's an avian Long John Silver impersonation.
(In which case, where's the parrot? Don't tell me it's dead!)
Take a closer look at that snazzy plummage:
[Photos: Davy King, June 2006]