Posted on 02/24/2019 5:03:20 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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.
Great fun video of a beautiful Great Blue Heron. Hearing you say, “nice stork” made me smile. I’ve had a GB Heron come to the creek in my back woods from time to time. There is no way my guy will let me get as close as you got to this one. However, when I was at the beach on the Florida Panhandle last September, I was able to get as close to one there as you did. It was a huge thrill for me. He posed and posed as I took one photo after another. Thanks for sharing your video.
I have pink ones with metal rods holding them up.
Or, a blue xion.
Neighbor bought sporty koi to the tune of a couple grand for his pond.
He went on vacation and a family of otters paid his pond a visit and ate all the expensive koi.
Man he was mad.
There have been a couple of RWBBs coming to my feeders since the last week of January. I’ve heard they are here year round, but I haven’t usually seen them until April, as you mentioned. I’m also enjoying seeing the Red-breasted Nuthatch this year. What a cute little friendly guy!
I think Great Blue Heron, as opposed to a Little Blue Heron.
Those things are delicious!
I did buy a blue heron decoy like the one in your link. It worked for about a month.
We have a blue heron couple that does pond hopping on our road which has many homes with ponds on a mile long stretch. One Blue Heron is a light gray and the other is a bluish dark grey. They only fly together when the mating season is in full swing and I have seen the same couple year after year for the last 5 years or so. They are solitary birds when not in the mating season. We see herons quite often in our area in western Tennessee. They like to be near or in ponds usually at the edge.
We have a lot of year round geese who frequent the same ponds.
When they come in for a landing by the pond they often come right over my house. When outside and a 6 foot wingspan goes over your head unexpectedly you duck.
My goldfish nemises are racoons.
At 300 yards the 17 WSM is 4" low. The dam is 312 yards. Piece of cake
When I lived in Broward County, I saw these gorgeous birds all the time.
But it didn’t QUITE make up for living in Broward County! LOL! :-)
Definitely a blue heron. They are as thick as thieves here in west Kentucky. If you see water, you’ll see a heron. Has really hurt the frog population, making frog gigging somewhat harder.
That being said, I love blue herons, one of my favorite birds.
I got him an artificial heron which he placed next to the pond and that kept the real one away...... .................. It works! Had the same problem here in my little pond in front of the house. I have a river behind the house, they can do what they want there. They ate 3 nests of Ruby Cichlids, but then again, the Cichlids should have stayed in Tanzania, they didn’t belong in FLA. (Folks down here have a habit of dumping their fish tanks in the river when they move.)
We get them around our farm at different times of the year. But they usually are in pairs but not always.
They make an unusual, recognizable sound.
Here in S.E. Michigan, there are two nesting sites in swamp areas, each about 10 miles from me. I never new they nested high up in the dead trees, I always thought they were ground nesters.
Ping in memory of swampsniper...
Blue heron..see them all the time here in Florida. They are active at night too. I can hear them yak yak as they fly over all hours. They’re very mouthy if you displease them by shooing them off your boat or seawall or whatever. They’re big crappers too.
Everybody is wrong! It’s a stork! Better start setting up the nursery! ;)
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