The sun was going down behind me as I looped back by the pond where I had photographed the Mottled Duck pair and Tricolored Heron.

I took some landscape images and then realized the ducks and heron were still there, in the tall grass.

The Tricolored Heron started working his way back out into the open.

And the ducks followed him.

The heron continued to wade and the ducks swam behind, all in a row.