Recently at the pond I spent about ten minutes looking around the shoreline for any herons or ducks with no luck. Then, I ended up finding one a few yards in the woods along the hiking trail.
Canon 200D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600mm, ISO 800, F/8, 1/1250 sec
Adobe Photoshop and Topaz Denoise/Sharpen
Nice Heron!