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VIDEO: Blue Heron In My Backyard?
YouTube ^ | February 24, 2019 | DUmmie FUnnies

Posted on 02/24/2019 5:03:20 AM PST by PJ-Comix

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Is that a Blue Heron in my backyard? Yeah, I know that at first I thought it was a Stork in the video but finally figured out that it was probably a Heron of some type. But is this a Blue Heron even though it seems mostly gray? As you can tell, I am no ornithologist.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: blueheron; greatblueheron
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To: BuffaloJack

:)


21 posted on 02/24/2019 5:22:21 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: PJ-Comix

Probably to differentiate it from the smaller but very similar gray heron of Europe, Asia and Africa.


22 posted on 02/24/2019 5:23:20 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Doogle

There was a DFW area resident who tried to free a crane from a trotline on Lewisville a few years ago.....


23 posted on 02/24/2019 5:29:00 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Global warming? Er, ah, sorry, Climate Change?

I’ve had blue birds at my nesting boxes for the past two weeks.
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The birds at my feeder in Minneapolis are wearing hats and gloves.


24 posted on 02/24/2019 5:29:09 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: PJ-Comix

It most certainly does strongly resemble a Great Blue Heron.

I see them quite often through the summer and fall, there is at least one pair that nests within a mile of my home.

The grey has strong blue undertones, and in the right light *IS* blue.


25 posted on 02/24/2019 5:30:42 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: nesnah

Th European grey herons were considered a delicacy... some king served up about 400 in one feast to nobility present. Maybe he figured was protecting his trout supply in the process.

That skinny neck expands like a snake’s to accommodate rather large fish. They also eat mice, rats, snakes, and frogs.

Here’s one eating a very fat rat [after the initial glance at a family of Sandhill cranes ] :
https://youtu.be/94j77eDqef4

And another https://youtu.be/LdH6HA1QcJM


26 posted on 02/24/2019 5:33:40 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: PJ-Comix

It could be a blue himon


27 posted on 02/24/2019 5:40:16 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Hot Tabasco; PJ-Comix
See them around here from time to time and they can be definitely very blue.

Have seen them more gray too.

28 posted on 02/24/2019 5:40:22 AM PST by Eagles6
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To: piasa

The fat rat might b a pocket gopher


29 posted on 02/24/2019 5:41:30 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: depressed in 06

They stay year round at Lake of the Ozarks.
Plenty of shad to eat...


30 posted on 02/24/2019 5:44:13 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I’ve seen blue herons along creeks in the middle of Atlanta.


31 posted on 02/24/2019 5:45:11 AM PST by Atlantan
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I have a little cabin at the Lake of the Ozarks back in a small cove. I have a Blue that lives in the cove and is on my dock or nearby during the course of the day as it goes in and out of the cove.

I also get occasionally a Green Heron, much shorter and normally not extending its neck except to feed. More colorful for certain.


32 posted on 02/24/2019 5:53:00 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Had a couple acres on Bainbridge Island, ferry ride from Seattle, years ago. Had a small spring area that I had an excavator dig a pretty large pond in. Once it filled up I drove down to Tacoma and bought Rainbow Trout from a hatchery. I bought hundreds of both 6” and 12” trout and stocked the pond with them.

I’d come home from work and a Heron would be out there fishing in my pond. BB rifle worked for awhile but the bird figured out it was a pretty harmless deterrent from 50 yds away.

Not many trout left 4 years later when I sold the place. Beautiful birds and damn good fishermen.


33 posted on 02/24/2019 5:57:11 AM PST by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: PJ-Comix
There is a Great Blue Heron breeding colony about 6 miles from here. Last I heard there are about 800 breeding pairs. Given the pond in my back yard I see them often. That bird is definitely a Heron.

Great Blue Herron


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34 posted on 02/24/2019 5:57:32 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: PJ-Comix

What? No truth in avian marketing??

We see ‘em every spring and fall in the Hudson valley as they commute to their summer homes up north. They stop by our lake for a snack on their trip each way.


35 posted on 02/24/2019 6:04:04 AM PST by Flintlock (FIRST, you plug the leaks--THEN you bail out the boat.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Ni, it’s a heron, but not a blue. Blue Herons are larger, and bluer. Blue-gray, yes, but bluer then that. Regular herons are whitish-gray, to varying degrees, and a bit thinner in the body as well as smaller than a blue. Both beautiful, but the Blue is almost ghostly, nearly silent, and makes you wonder if you’re really seeing it, or if it’s a flashback to prehistoric times. It’s a very magical feeling. Definitely a regular heron, though, not a Blue. Keep looking.


36 posted on 02/24/2019 6:05:41 AM PST by _longranger81 (Gettin' our Mega-MAGA-Mojo on!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Now THAT’S a Blue Heron.


37 posted on 02/24/2019 6:07:36 AM PST by _longranger81 (Gettin' our Mega-MAGA-Mojo on!)
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To: _longranger81

Are you sure about it not being a Blue Heron? Others here have identified it as such.


38 posted on 02/24/2019 6:08:34 AM PST by PJ-Comix (SUBSCRIBE to the DUmmie FUnnIes YouTube Channel...NOW!!!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

We also had a stork fish for koi at our pond. The worst time was winter because with the leaves down the storks could see the pond as they flew over head. We had to shoo one away on Christmas day. It was so persistent we had to put strands of fishing line crossing the pond to make it stop. Our koi are ~20 years old now.


39 posted on 02/24/2019 6:08:34 AM PST by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance.)
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To: BuffaloJack
Get one of these, it worked for my brother-in-law who was losing his koi to a heron......

https://www.thepondguy.com/product/the-pond-guy-blue-heron-decoy/water-gardens-fish-ponds-predator-control

40 posted on 02/24/2019 6:11:27 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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