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Here Fishy, Fishy
While kayaking, I sometimes run across Green Herons (Butorides virescens), which are always fun and interesting to watch. And they are excellent fishers. In today’s photos, I’m sharing a couple of a Green Heron stalking fish at the edge of the water: In another post, I’ll share some images captured of a Green Heron fishing. […]
Posted in 2009, 2015, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Photography from a kayak
Tags: 2009, 2015, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Bittern Bottoms CA, Blog, Cass County, heron, kayaking, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, spring
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Green on Green
aka, Green Heron (Butorides virescens) in the Green Cay Wetlands. These guys are typically hard to approach when I find them back home (Missouri), but along the Green Cay boardwalk, this guy was not very far away, yet not afraid of people passing on the boardwalk. Here are a few of my favorite images of […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, Florida, Green Cay Wetlands, heron, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, winter
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Fun Friday: Open Mouth, Insert … Foot?
… in this case, let’s insert beak! When one of the parents of a pair of Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) chicks in a nest at the Venice Rookery returned to the nest, the youngsters did everything they could to get food from the adult. Great blue herons feed their chicks by first catching and […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Fun Friday post, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, cute, Florida, heron, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, Venice Rookery, winter
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Displaying Great Blue Herons
While visiting the Venice Rookery, the Great Blue Herons were in the middle of their breeding season. A couple of nests had chicks in them, while others were building nests and the birds displaying to attract mates. Here are a couple of displaying Great Blue Herons: Bird behavior at breeding time can be exciting to […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, Florida, heron, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, Venice Rookery, winter
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Tri-colored Birdie
I photographed a few TriColored Herons (Egretta tricolor) along the Anhinga Trail. Along the Anhinga Trail, the Tri’s were pretty tranquil, usually quietly waiting for a fish to swim within easy grasp. Here are a few images I captured in the Everglades: At one time, the Tricolored Heron was know as the Louisiana Heron. Guess […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, National Park, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, Anhinga Trail, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, Everglades NP, Florida, heron, National Park, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, winter
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An Intimate Day with the Great Blue Heron
More photos from the Venice Rookery coming up, but I want to share some intimate photos of Great Blue Herons that I made on the Anhinga Trail, in Everglades NP. I have always wanted to visit the Everglades, and this past month I was finally able to delete this one from my bucket list! :o) […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, Everglades NP, Florida, heron, National Park, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, winter
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Fun Friday: There Goes the Neighborhood!
Today’s “Fun Friday” post comes from the Venice bird rookery, located in the middle of Venice, Florida. As I photographed the nesting and roosting birds at the rookery, there constantly seemed to be some action going on at the far end of the island, so I picked up my equipment and moved down to see […]
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Fun Friday post, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, cute, egret, Florida, heron, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, Venice Rookery, winter
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Early Riser
The early bird doesn’t always get the worm … but he sure gets a great seat to watch the sunrise! Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) at sunrise (made in my kayak)
Posted in 2014, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Photography from a kayak
Tags: 2014, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, Cass County, heron, kayaking, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, spring
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Florida Green Herons
These Green Heron (Butorides virescens) images were made a few years ago when I was photographing in Florida. We stayed for a couple of days with some great friends of ours (Thanks, Tom and Lindsay!) who live in St. Petersburg. Not far from their house was a neat little place where we found some alligators, […]
Posted in 2013, Bird Photography, Birds, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2013, behavior, bird photography, birding, birds, birdwatching, Blog, Florida, heron, nature, nature photography, photography, travel, winter
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Night Heron
While going through my vast library of images to find some images for a client, I ran across some images I made from the kayak a couple of years ago and had never posted. So, today’s featured subject is the night heron. In particular, a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron. While kayaking a local Missouri waterway, […]