Blindsided

Anne and I took a walk in Cheesequake Park yesterday along the Blue trail. That's about 2.5 miles along various water features. We were surprised that we didn't see a single animal or bird. We arrived at a bird viewing blind by a lake and went inside to see if we could spy a fowl. We saw nothing. Anne didn't like the height of the viewing windows, so she stepped outside to get a better view. A great blue heron squawked and flew out of a tree right next to the blind and flew across the lake. I guess you could say that we were blindsided.