Fun Friday: Like My New Do?

By Jim | Published March 6, 2015

Green Herons (Butorides virescens) are a lot of fun to watch. Many times, they will cause their head feathers to become erect, giving them a quite comical appearance: This image was captured from my kayak a few years ago. Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 1D Mark 3 body Canon EF 100-400mm, f/4.5-5.6 IS lens, with Canon […]

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Here Fishy, Fishy

By Jim | Published February 28, 2015

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. […]

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Green on Green

By Jim | Published March 12, 2014

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 […]

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Fun Friday: Open Mouth, Insert … Foot?

By Jim | Published March 7, 2014

… 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 […]

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Displaying Great Blue Herons

By Jim | Published March 6, 2014

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 […]

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Tri-colored Birdie

By Jim | Published March 5, 2014

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 […]

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An Intimate Day with the Great Blue Heron

By Jim | Published February 12, 2014

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) […]

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Fun Friday: There Goes the Neighborhood!

By Jim | Published February 7, 2014

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 […]

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Early Riser

By Jim | Published January 16, 2014

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)  

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Florida Green Herons

By Jim | Published December 31, 2013

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, […]

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