Heron

I have a love/hate relationship with this fellow.  He sits outside my door and sits, and sits, and sits.  I stand poised with my camera until my arm hurts and just about the time I put the camera down to regroup, he takes off in a spectacular fashion.  Little does he realize that I have all the patience in the world and I'll get him sooner or later.
The kids are doing fine -- all fourteen of them are safe and seem to be growing bigger every time I see them.  They're still being tended by four adults with the two dads kicking up quite a fuss if they sense an unwarranted intrusion by another adult.  Today's status photo of three of them is in Extras.