The other day I was landing at Noritake airport near Tokyo and saw in the space of a mile or so two different herons as I was looking out the plane's window. They were large and uniformly grey across the the wings and back. Noritake is a only a few kilometers inland, could it be Pacific Reef Heron? They were flying down a small river or slough.

Ed Swan
Vashon Island
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