A great blue heron keeps a keen eye out for prey while standing on a stump at Chinese Gardens in the North Beach neighborhood of Port Townsend. Herons are only one of the many water fowl that can be seen at the lagoon year round. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

A great blue heron keeps a keen eye out for prey while standing on a stump at Chinese Gardens in the North Beach neighborhood of Port Townsend. Herons are only one of the many water fowl that can be seen at the lagoon year round. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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A great blue heron keeps a keen eye out for prey while standing on a stump at Chinese Gardens in the North Beach neighborhood of Port Townsend.

Herons are only one of the many water fowl that can be seen at the lagoon year round.

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