An Intimate Day with the Great Blue Heron

By James Braswell | 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 James Braswell | 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 James Braswell | 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 James Braswell | 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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Night Heron

By James Braswell | Published November 5, 2013

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, […]

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Great Blue Heron Rookery

By James Braswell | Published July 25, 2013

Directly behind the osprey nest at the Lee Metcalf NWR (SW Montana), there is a small Great Blue Heron Rookery. As I watched and photographed the osprey activity at the nest, I was often distracted from the loud and intense squawking that the juvenile herons were making in the rookery nests. Whenever an adult Great […]

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