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Great Blue Heron
Stanley Jones

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias wardi) with a freshwater drum. It looked large enough to share but it just turned its back and walked away (lol).
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Habitat
Gulf Coat Marshes and Prairies vegetation area. Open manicured park with paved trails, athletic fields and numerous retention ponds at 51 m (167 ft) elevation. Small island in a retention pond.
Location
Paul D. Rushing Park, Katy, Harris County, Texas, USA.
Date taken
December 2023
Scientific name
Ardea herodias
Equipment used
Canon
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Reactions: Э́ллин, Ozprey1, TGNWest and 2 others
Kits
A fantastic back view of this hungry chap, Stanley.
 
jbpixels
Participating in a fish challenge? Stunning capture of this heron with its mighty catch.
 
bievreJJ
he could have left you a bit of the fish, superb photo of this heron with its huge catch, top class, Stanley, many tfs!!
 
TGNWest
Supporter
Nothing worse than a selfish Heron! But I'm sure it worked very hard to catch that fish. 😁
 

Media information

Category
North America
Added by
Stanley Jones
Date added
View count
214
Comment count
12

Image metadata

Device
Canon Canon EOS R5
Aperture
ƒ/7.1
Focal length
500.0 mm
Exposure time
1/1250 second(s)
ISO
800
Filename
Great Blue Heron with a drumb, Paul D Rushing Park, Katy, Harris County.jpg
File size
275.5 KB
Date taken
Fri, 08 December 2023 10:59 AM
Dimensions
904px x 1024px

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