The blue heron likes to stand on the edge of the grasses to fish. I thought there was only one of these but today I saw two. Hope they are matting that would be so cool. I have a picture of the other one that doesn't have the grasses between me and it but not as close up. The tricky thing is to focus on the bird and not the grasses.
Excellent portrait of this handsome bird - I like that both the Heron and the foreground grasses have taken on the colours of the rising sun. (A quick peak at the Exif data confirms that you got the camera settings spot on.)