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ardea herodias

  1. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  2. GreatBlueHeron_09292024.jpg

    GreatBlueHeron_09292024.jpg

    Great Blue Heron caught a snack in the neighborhood pond. Last year they left for the winter, but came back - i wonder if they are getting ready to do the same!
  3. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    Preformative (first Fall) molt in the Great Blue Heron is protracted and often suspended during the winter resulting in peculiar plumage combinations. E. g. this one shows an adult crown pattern but also retained juvenile wing coverts with white spots on the feather tips. Largest of the North...
  4. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  5. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  6. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  7. Great Blue Heron getting ready to strike.jpg

    Great Blue Heron getting ready to strike.jpg

    Freeze frame of a video captured while paddling on the Rideau River.
  8. Damn! It's so itchy!_x264.mp4

    Damn! It's so itchy!_x264.mp4

    This was my second heron scratching video.
  9. Heron scratching_x264.mp4

    Heron scratching_x264.mp4

    Captured this interesting heron behavior during one of my morning kayaking trips.
  10. Great blue heron

    Great blue heron

    Great blue herons at Topsmead State Forest.
  11. Great blue heron

    Great blue heron

    Great blue herons at Topsmead State Forest.
  12. Great blue heron

    Great blue heron

    Great blue herons at Topsmead State Forest.
  13. Great blue heron

    Great blue heron

    A great blue heron saw me before I saw him, so I was lucky to at least get one shot.
  14. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  15. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    This bird was stationary on this spot a bit into the reed-bed for at least 1 hour. Much of the time was spent preening.
  16. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  17. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    In "his" pond. Sun was trying to peek through today, but did rain later in the afternoon.
  18. Great blue heron fishing

    Great blue heron fishing

  19. Great blue heron fishing

    Great blue heron fishing

    This guy was in the same spot I saw the juvenile last week, same time of day too.
  20. Great blue heron (juvenile) on patrol

    Great blue heron (juvenile) on patrol

    Hello all, and happy Friday! We went out earlier this week in search of any critters that may have been about. We were in the middle of a bad heat wave (heat indices up to 103F), so understandably the pickings were slim. But after all day of hunting, on the way home at dusk we passed a juvenile...
  21. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron at Brown Deer park
  22. hera.jpg

    hera.jpg

    Great Blue Heron - I named this one "Hera"
  23. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias wardi)
  24. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  25. end of story - down the hatch

    end of story - down the hatch

    Of course the story had to end this way. It's the wild world's equivalent of "and they all lived happily ever after".
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