I saw a grey spotted ? heron (i think it's called) in Harvard MA a few months ago. Only around ~800k in north america iirc. Thing was at least 2.5-3 feet tall, impressive
Yeah an 18-24"er is nearly, or close to half average. Tougher to get the 30" type numbers down that way, but Taunton (and others) on the south shore did it a few years ago. Most of their seasonal avg