Long Legs

A couple of weekends ago my Pals Six Deuce and Best Beard were at The Platz for a weekend hunt before the mayhem of the gun opener.  Beard described a bird he spied that for all the world sounded like a heron.  A great blue heron.

Sure as shoot this bird was captured on a trail camera - not far from where he was hunting.

Meet Ardea Herodias - the Great Blue Heron.  Adults boast s gray color, distinctive black eyebrows, a white crown, wispy feathers at the base of  the neck and a long yellow bill.

This is a juvenile.







Brown is the dominant color, with a black crown, dark bill and no wispy stuff on the neck.

First time we've spied one in about a half-dozen years,

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Migrator passing thru perhaps.......