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great blue heron

  1. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

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

    Great Blue Heron

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

    Great Blue Heron

    I cropped this photo because I like seeing the inner membrane eye blink.
  4. 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...
  5. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

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

    Great Blue Heron

    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).
  7. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

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    Great Blue Herons And Their Third Eyelid

    Great Blue Herons Have A Third Eyelid, (new blog post) It wasn't until I was out on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge a couple years ago when I learned from my photos that great blue herons, like many birds do, have a third eyelid. It makes sense that they have a third eyelid but I never...
  9. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  10. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  11. An Old Friend?.jpg

    An Old Friend?.jpg

    This was taken yesterday morning during my paddling trip on the Rideau River. Comparing with the one that I'd uploaded not too ago: one that was taken back in September of 2020, they really looked like the same great blue heron.
  12. 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.
  13. Damn! It's so itchy!_x264.mp4

    Damn! It's so itchy!_x264.mp4

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

    Heron scratching_x264.mp4

    Captured this interesting heron behavior during one of my morning kayaking trips.
  15. Egrets at Cheney Creek

    Egrets at Cheney Creek

    How many birds do you see? I count 11. 7 snowy egrets 4 great egrets 1 great blue heron What a cool place!
  16. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

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

    Great Blue Heron

  18. 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.
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    Hello Birding World!

    Hello All! Just wanted to say hi and post a favorite pic that I took! :)
  20. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    Great Heron resting.
  21. great blue heron

    great blue heron

  22. Regal Blue

    Regal Blue

    Great Blue Heron
  23. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

  24. Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    In "his" pond. Sun was trying to peek through today, but did rain later in the afternoon.
  25. Great blue heron (juvenile)

    Great blue heron (juvenile)

    We were driving to an appointment when I noticed this juvenile Great Blue heron on a branch overlooking the swamp on the side of the road. We got out of the appointment an hour later, and it took me another 30 minutes to get home to get the camera. I figured there was no way he'd still be there...
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