Friday, June 25, 2010

Green Herons Surround

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Camera Critters

22 comments:

  1. What a cute little bird...when you say Heron...I think of the big ones right a way. Love the two bottom photos with the reflections!

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  2. What a reflection! Looks great!

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  3. I have never seen a green heron...we have blue herons....I just love his color! Wonderful close ups...you really captured the personality of this guy! Awesome!

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  4. I'm with Janis - I tend to think of herons as great big birds. This chap (chapess) is lovely. I love his muted colours and the photos with reflections are beautiful.

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  5. Beautiful shots! Love the teal color on the bird.

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  6. Lovely pictures !
    My absolute favorite is nr 4 there you see the bird reflecting in the water.
    Don´t believe we have these birds in Sweden ?
    I have never seen one , that I know for sure :)

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  7. Gorgeous shots of the Green Heron, they are my favorites. The reflections are awesome, well done.

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  8. Wonderful photos. And to get within photo striking distance!

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  9. WOW...I never knew that herons are also small birds. I only have seen the big blue ones. He's adorable!

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  10. Love the detail of the feathers in the first one - amazing closeup!

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  11. Last summer a great blue heron was fishing the pond when two green herons flew in, landed in a tree and started what sounded like barking. The great blue responded and I think it was an argument until the blue got tired and left. I love these little guys and your photos show how beautifully colored they are, yet blend in so well......Michelle

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  12. Stunning photos! Someday I'll be able to capture one of these critters. They are across the road and I've seen them but never with the camera.

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  13. What a gorgeous bird - and what gorgeous photos, too! Love the one where he's sitting almost horizontally in a most un-heronlike pose!

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  14. We don't have herons here. He is really amazing!

    Do you know what the other bird is?

    We have been studying the birds at my house; a short move just a few minutes away from our old house yielded us entirely new birds! We still see house finches (though only a few; before we saw mostly house finches in our yard). The day we moved in we had a roadrunner in our yard! He has never come back, though we did have a burrowing owl who liked to hang out in our garden in the early evenings. There are some I can't find in my bird book at all, including what appears to be an oriole, and a brown bird very similar to the one you photographed here.

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  15. I've never seen a bird like that. I LOVE the colors.

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  16. Amazing! We have two that nest in the woods right next to ouru house, even though the swamp is 1/4 mile down the road. I love the sound they make. And I love your photos!

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  17. How big is it? Eastern Phoebe perhaps?

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  18. (My other thought, if its like about 5 1/2 inches it could be a least flycatcher.??)
    I'm always guessing wrong.

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  19. Love the last shots with the reflection. That is an intense looking bird!

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