What’s your favorite part of the Great Blue Heron? The long legs? That heavy bill? Those big wings? We can’t get enough of them! We found the five below in our online photo galleries.
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In-flight: Ted Busby snapped this photo as a Great Blue Heron flew in for a landing at a rookery in Ontario.
Fishing: Fish was on the menu for this Great Blue Heron, photographed by troylimphotography at a pond in Sarasota, Florida.
Preening: Chitrakara found this Great Blue Heron with a pair of fuzzy-headed chicks at Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida.
Showing off: Zeggy95’s photo shows the Great Blue’s impressive wingspan and almost every one of its wing and tail feathers.
Waiting: eric.brown found this perfectly perched Great Blue Heron at Bob Woodruff Park in Plano, Texas.
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Read how a reader used a kayak to photograph a Great Blue in Rhode Island.
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We occasionally choose our Friday Photos subjects by polls conducted on Facebook. Why don’t you join the fun? “Like” us on Facebook.
Previous Friday Photo selections:
This is our tenth “Friday Photos” post. Earlier we showcased photos of woodpeckers, owls, hawks, white birds, super close-ups, birds of Brazil, hummingbirds, orioles, and tanagers. If you have a suggestion for a future “Friday Photos” theme, please leave a comment.
Five tanagers. See Scarlet, Western, Summer, Hepatic, and stunning Flame-colored.
Beautiful orioles. See Bullock’s, Baltimore, Hooded, Orchard, and Scott’s.
Hummingbird favorites. See Black-chinned, Ruby-throated, Calliope, Broad-tailed, and Rufous.
Birds of Brazil. See Silver-beaked Tanager, Harpy Eagle, Blue Dacnis, Chaco Chachalaca, and White Monjita.
Super close-ups. See Golden Eagle, Blue Jay, Great Egret, Green-winged Teal, and Northern Saw-whet Owl.
Ghost birds. See Red-tailed Hawk, Northern Mockingbird, Spotted Sandpiper, Wood Duck, and Dark-eyed Junco.
Hawks. See Red-shouldered, Harris’s, Ferruginous, Swainson’s, and Cooper’s.
Owls. See Short-eared, Northern Saw-whet, Eastern Screech, Burrowing, and Barred.
Woodpeckers. See Downy, Pileated, Acorn, Gila, and American Three-toed.
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