Whether standing as silent as a rock or prepensivley moving through the reeds, this stealthiest of dawn hunters strikes with lightening swiftness.
Great Blue Heron ~ Rock or Reed?
My View of Life on the Dock
My View of Life on the Dock
Whether standing as silent as a rock or prepensivley moving through the reeds, this stealthiest of dawn hunters strikes with lightening swiftness.
Good Morning Gloucester 
Beautiful photos!
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Thank you Paul and I hope you and Cathy had a great time in FLA!
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That’s amazing. Thanks for the lesson in nature via beautiful photos!
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Thank you Mary–I learn something new each and every time I have the opportunity to photograph outdoors.
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They are wonderful….
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Many thanks Patti!
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Kim, that first shot is spectacular! As large and awkward as they appear, they are one of the most graceful birds I’ve seen. We’re showing a home for sale in Peabody that has a pond on the property, and a blue heron glides in daily. It’s a joy to behold. You are an excellent photographer, capturing the animal’s essence.
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Thank you Sue. The property sounds lovely, especially coming with a heron as it does! I have a dream to live, photograph, and film on a pond for a year, with the ocean next door (Niles Pond!).
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I look forward to your photos. They are always beautiful. They take turns with my grand kids as screen savers on my computer, IPad and IPhone. Thank you 😀
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Thank you Johanna–a very sweet thing to say–and I am glad you enjoy them so.
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Kim, your photos and words about nature are always a treat. This one with the heron in low profile is special. Thanks for all your wonderful work.
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Thanks so much Al, and thank you for your always kind and thoughtful comments to us all. I am sure you are missing Glo, but I hope you and Phyllis are having a great fall.
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I lived in Florida for a considerable amount of time, always on the Gulf coast and all the great blue herons I had seen were like the one in the photo with sort of a greyish tinge. Only once did I see one that was a deep blue. We were fishing in a canal near Hudson (Leasure Beach) and one ambled over and started to make a cocktail of the live shrimp we were using for bait as we fed him the occasional small fish too small to keep for ourselves. I wonder if it had anything to do with mating season but that was the only time in the 10-15 years I lived there that I ever spotted one that color. Anyone else ever seen one? I’d like to know more. Great shot though. You do know why they stand on one leg? If they pick up the other they fall down.
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Hilary, the heron you are describing sounds like a Little Blue Heron (although not that little!) Google Little Blue Heron, Images, and I think you will see your bird. Let me know if you think they are one and the same.
Little Blue Herons are very unusual in that they spend the first year of their lives with white plumage–looking much like an egret!
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Wow how they walk and you caught the moment on one leg – here is a little oldie that deal with walking. After the move west-Along the Rio Grande the migration happens at this time of year sandhill cranes etc along with the balloon festival http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/Golfweek-Custom-Media/2013-aibf-final_vp/2013090901/#5
Walk Away Renee – The Left Banke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqAh1dQu_pg
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Kim, The great blue heron I saw was great big and more of a sky blue than not dark as the pictures I saw while looking them up. It had no fear of humans, in fact I didn’t want to mess with that long pointy beak, I only have one working eye and wasn’t going to risk it over a dozen or so bait shrimp. It surely did stand out among it’s peers which were not around. There are a lot of things that you can run into just off the road. While taking a short cut between a couple of friends houses I found myself nose to beak with an emu. I had to look that one up. Thanks for the reply.
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Just beautiful
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