GBH

Sitting on the porch the other day reading when Jill whispered thru the window to me:

Look.  Over there by your mulberry.  A heron.

Craning my neck to take a look; sure enough.  A great blue heron had sauntered into the yard to pay a call.

And without making a sound it took flight.

Blessed to live where the wild things are.  And I had the presence of mind to snap a quick photo...

 

Critters That Take Flight

Blue Jay

Great Blue Heron

 

Turkeys 

 

Where The Wild Things Are

We’re sitting here watching the Orioles and their fledglings come to the feeders. It’s a hoot and we’re running a jar of Concord grape a day now.

And deer with their fawns stroll past less than a hundred feet from the back porch.

Then this happened.

A Great Blue Heron landed in the rain garden to dine on a green frog or two.

This is where the wild things are.

Benefit of residence…..

Long Legged Fisherman

The monsoons a week and a half ago dumped a ton of rain causing Silver Creek to top its banks and flood what is normally terrestrial. 

 

Trail camera number 2 fortunately was mounted just high enough to not be submerged.

 

Good thing as it captured some nice photos

 

Including these on June 23rd of a Great Blue Heron feeding on bait fish in the shallows of the flood plain.....

 

 

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,

click on images to enlarge

 

Migrator passing thru perhaps.......

Long Legs

The Great blue heron - Ardea Herodias - is a wading bird found throughout North America.

When searching for prey these birds wade slowly or stand statue-like, stalking fish, frogs or small mammals in shallow water or open fields. This bird is easily identified why flying by the distinctive “S” shape of the neck.

This bird can be found in both salt water and fresh water habitats.

This bird was found on a pier located in Gulf Shores State Park in Alabama.  It was panhandling for bait scraps from the fishermen.