Frustrated Blue Heron

So the Blue Heron got frustrated, having not seen us much over the last two weeks. Pi Guy and I went for a ride on the Sinton Trail loop today and didn't see the sizable bird at all.
I watched the Monument Creek bottom all the time that we were riding parallel to it. Nowhere was our bird friend. Could be frustration, or he/she could be "busy." The last time Lucy and I saw the Blue Heron, it was Blue Herons, a pair of them.
This isn't the first ride since doing the Cottonwood Canyon trail two weeks ago. We managed a ride to the Air Force Academy on the Santa Fe Trail, an extension of the Pikes Peak Greenway trail. That should have been about seventeen miles and on schedule.
If I don't get right to writing, the days get messed up, so I can’t remember the day or date. It was interesting though that when we got close to the Air Force Academy riding between the railroad grade and Monument Creek, part of a retaining berm contained flat bed rail cars tipped up on their sides.
Another day Pi Guy and I started to do the Sinton Trail loop, but at the intersection of 30th and Garden of the Gods Road, Pi Guy had had enough. Instead of continuing to the Mesa Trail, we rode down Garden of the Gods Road to the Pikes Peak Greenway. It turns out that this ride was about the twelve mile distance that we were trying for.
It was here that Pi Guy and I saw the Blue Heron on this ride, in the little reservoir at the bottom of the GOTG Road. We were experimenting the possibility of going around on the west side of the reservoir and looking over the embankment our blue friend was about twenty-five feet distant.
Today the Sinton Trail loop was different for three reasons, we did get all the way around, it's Mother's Day, we had a little gizmo to tell us the exact distance and we didn't see the Blue Heron. Four reasons today was different.
It turns out that my estimates of distance have been skewed toward the conservative. I had thought that the Sinton Trail loop was a little over twelve miles. It is almost exactly fifteen. So its time for some review, repetition on our rides to see what the right distances are. Just for fun.
Maybe the Blue Heron will show him/her self again.