These pictures are admittedly blurry and not the best, but given I was using 125x optical zoom from a moving ship, trying to take pictures of a moving bird on a distant shoreline, who was blending in with the surrounding rocks, I think I did fairly well picking out the Great Blue Heron, and snapping a few shots of him.

This is the information AI gave me when it helped me to try and confirm that the blurry splotches were a Great Blue Heron:

Great Blue Heron.

The long legs, long neck, grayish-blue plumage, and its presence in a shallow water habitat near the shore are all key identifiers for this species.

Great Blue Herons are common in Nova Scotia, and they are often seen wading in shallow water or along shorelines, looking for fish and other prey.

Click the pictures below to see them larger, and look for the Great Blue Heron hanging out in them. He’s small, and gets blurrier the more you zoom in, but he’s there.