Part of the ritual of selecting a mate and getting the nest ready for Great Blue Herons includes the male bringing sticks. This one found a mighty stick but had trouble figuring out how to get it into the nest.
He sat a few moments balancing with the stick on dead limb and then took off for another loop around the island.
He came in from much higher and a steeper angle.
Dropping in from above with much more grace than you might think possible he made a successfully delivery.
Great sequence and wonderful detail!
Thanks, Belinda!
Yay! Love his determination! Love this action series, Ellen!
Thanks, Donna! The GBH are great fun to watch. It will be interesting to see if they keep this up when the cold returns. It wa 70 today but we’ll be back to more seasonable 40s and 50s next week.