Healing nature during a pandemic: the appearance of a heron in a city ditch

Probably, everyone has already seen dozens of news about the improvement of the environmental situation in the world after the introduction of strict quarantine measures during the coronavirus pandemic. They write about reducing harmful emissions, the level of pollution of air and water bodies - and this is so, since in many countries production and automobile traffic have significantly decreased. Recently, jokes have spread in social networks about various things that are returning to the “natural habitat” due to the coronavirus. Allegedly, universal isolation led to the fact that nature began to heal from human intervention and take its own. At first, I was also skeptical of this. But today I accidentally noticed a heron in a city ditch, which leisurely moved around and caught frogs. This really struck me as meeting a heron in our country is extremely unlikely even in the wild. In addition, it is listed in the Red List of Threatened Species . And here she calmly walks through the water looking for frogs to feast on them. It really impressed me.