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 12:35 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 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.
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