OT OT OT Great Blue Heron again

omahagreg · Oct 31, 2021

Had a short day at work on Friday. The lighting was perfect!

GermantownGreen · Oct 31, 2021

Very neat, how close were you there?

Richard G. · Oct 31, 2021

Yep, see them all the time out our kitchen window.
The pond is about 75 feet away from the house.
Been having white ones lately also.

rrman61 · Oct 31, 2021

Yep real common down here some people call them
a 747

omahagreg · Oct 31, 2021

I am 100 feet away using about 700 of my 900 lens

redforlife · Oct 31, 2021

Use to see them often, but not so much
lately. I'm not around water as much
since my fishing has really reduced.
They always seemed to be less alarming
than other birds or animals. Several
times I wondered if they was going to
just stand there in the bank side
shallow water and watch me fish,
instead of flying off. I have shared
the pond with them, if the pond was
big enough and I could remain a 150
yards or so from them.

Mike(NEOhio) · Oct 31, 2021

We have a rookery within three miles here located within a section of our county park system. They usually work along the creek through my place and I could see them
almost daily. Seems like the numbers are down some the last two years, don't see them as often.

Hay hay hay · Oct 31, 2021

Well you enticed me to try to identify the heron or crane that flies over my farm almost everyday on it's way to feed at the neighbors pond.
It is large, marked like your beautiful photo, and flies with its head pulled back to it's body....so I believe it is a blue heron.

Thanks for the photo.

wjytexas · Oct 31, 2021

Great pics and timing

Janicholson · Oct 31, 2021

Mississippi river has 20 or so that populate Beaver Island in St. Cloud. In Indiana there is a rookery on the headwaters of the
Little Calumet river. We lived with them in the Northern Indiana community all my life. My wife calls them Pterodactyls. Not far
off target either. Jim

CKain(MI) · Oct 31, 2021

Hay Hay Hay, your description sounds exactly like the Great Blue Heron. The farm I grew up on, in Southern Mich. had a Rookery in the woods close to our house(1/2 mi.) In an area with very tall trees, trees with no limbs on their trunks, only at the tops, they were shaped like a huge umbrella. These birds built nests in those tops, as many as 25 per tree. Flew over our farm every morning, to lakes and ponds. Came back later in afternoons. I believe it was the only nesting area in Branch County. I now live in Kalamazoo county and there is at least one rookery around.

old-9 · Oct 31, 2021

We have them here in North central Indiana with a rookery in Tippycanoe River State park. They found the wife's garden pond, the Koi didn't have a chance!joe

Ultradog MN · Oct 31, 2021

Greg,
Outstanding photography!
Thanks.

Richard G. · Oct 31, 2021

When they are flying in and out, we call them pterodactyls.

Brian G. NY · Oct 31, 2021

(quoted from post at 17:07:26 10/31/21) Greg,
Outstanding photography!
Thanks.

I'll second that motion! Beautiful pictures! The backdrop with the berries and the log is just great!

old · Oct 31, 2021

I have them come visit both my small lakes almost daily

47fivewindow · Oct 31, 2021

Here is on taken with an old Iphone

SweetFeet · Oct 31, 2021

Beautiful photos.

Texasmark · Oct 31, 2021

He's stealing your fish!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pitch1 · Nov 1, 2021

Great photos. They are one of my favorite subjects,but very wary. I have a lot of pics of their feet and toes as they take off.

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