crane in the Alewife Brook?

[jadelennox]

Sometimes I wish I had a fancy cell phone just so I would always have a camera on me. This morning, as I passed the intersection of 16th and Broadway, I saw something that looked a lot like a crane standing by the sewer overflow pipe in the Alewife Brook. I'm not a bird person, so I can't be sure. But it was very tall, standing on long legs, gray all over, that beautiful long curving neck and long beak. Gorgeous, and fairly inexplicable in a watercourse which has lately been too nasty even for ducks.