Thursday, September 20, 2012

Nature Paparazzi--Great Blue Heron

I have always watched these big beautiful birds as they hunt fish or frogs but I have rarely been able to get them on film. I was absolutely thrilled when I was able to get these shots...
I love the way they hover motionlessly above the water and then WHAM they spear a fish or grab it in their strong beak. Then they tip their head up to slide it down their throat. Great Blue Herons are BIG birds--about 4 feet high with a wing span of 6 feet! Yet I usually don't see them in the water until I am almost on top of them. It is because they are so very still and that grey-blue color really blends into the background.
I have always thought they look really awkward as they take off and fly away. But they are so very elegant as their stride through the water on those long legs as they hunt.


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