Heron takes flight
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common_natureI accidentally walked up on this lovely heron at the lake today (US Midwest, small man-made lake that just happens to be close enough for me to walk to), and he was obliging enough to stand still until I had a chance to get out the camera! I see a lot of birds out there every year (right now we also have ducklings, a small geese population, and a lot of red-winged blackbirds), but this is the closest I've ever gotten to one of the herons, and I thought this community might like to see him.
Fairly sure it's a great blue heron, though I'm not a bird-identifying expert.
Fairly sure it's a great blue heron, though I'm not a bird-identifying expert.
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Date: 2025-05-25 12:47 pm (UTC)(It is a truth universally acknowledged that any culture portrayed in a lucrative toy franchise will have a winter holiday devoted to gift-giving, family, and feasting (which I presume would consist of fancy Energon.)
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Date: 2025-05-25 12:35 am (UTC)They're such beautiful creatures, aren't they?
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Date: 2025-05-25 01:04 pm (UTC)What a fabulous shot!
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Date: 2025-05-25 08:33 pm (UTC)I love herons. Last year, there was a young grey heron (which looks a lot like the great blue heron but is smaller) in a drainage ditch right across from my apartment. Sometimes he landed on the roof right above my window. It was impressive to watch. This year, he seems to have moved to a pond near the town center. He scared me a couple of times by suddenly taking flight out of the bushes when I was cycling by.
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Date: 2025-05-25 08:54 pm (UTC)They really are such beautiful birds. We get some smaller herons around here too from time to time; we've had a couple of small brown ones that I think are bitterns, but they never stay long. I suspect the lake is Mr. Great Blue Heron's home (shared with the geese) and the others are just passing through. Every now and then I'll see him launch from across the lake, and it's really impressive.
Thanks for thinking of us!
Date: 2025-05-25 10:04 pm (UTC)A marvelous picture.
The only time I got that close to a Great Blue I was canoeing very early, and evidently I was too near a nest. The heron's legs barely cleared our heads, and we backed away very quickly. What a whoosh.
Re: Thanks for thinking of us!
Date: 2025-05-26 01:02 am (UTC)They're so much bigger up close than it seems like they would be. At first I thought he was part of a tree, and then he made eye contact! Being in a canoe next to one seems like it would be alarming, to say the least.
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