Tag Archives: Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron Stick Gathering

January 16, 2021 Ellen Jennings Leave a comment

Another nesting season has begun for the Great Blue Herons and this male was on a mission to find some nest material.

You can see from looking at the stick selection on the ground around him that he should have considered going a bit further from the nest.

Great Blue Heron Looking for Nest Material

He eventually found a small stick.

The route to his nest in the skinny tree was into the sun so this isn’t much of an image but gives you the idea of the action. And that the skinny tree is still standing.

Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
January 4, 2021

Wading Birds

Great Blue Heron Running

December 26, 2020 Ellen Jennings 3 Comments

Running on Water that is.

Sometimes a bird just doesn’t do what you expect.

I thought this Great Blue Heron was going to poke around in that snag, looking for fish.

He thought otherwise.

And I was so close to him I didn’t get great perspective. He only went to the edge of the pond. Where he immediately plucked a fish out of the water–none of that wait, watch, wait some more action.

Wading Birds

Great Blue Heron, Tall Reeds

December 17, 2020 Ellen Jennings 2 Comments

A Great Blue Heron was almost camouflaged by the tall reeds.

Soaking up the December sun, he never moved as I rounded the corner of the pond and could see him from a different angle.

Landscape

Pond Scene, Great Blue Heron

December 8, 2020 Ellen Jennings Leave a comment

The middle of the pond was already in the shade at 3 in the afternoon. The left bank is lined with tall pine trees. I thought the Great Blue Heron would fly towards me to get a sunny spot, but he thought different.

Fall Pond Scene, Great Blue Heron on Ramp, Great Egret in Reeds

December 5, 2020

Wading Birds

Great Blue Herons Around The Swamp

November 10, 2020 Ellen Jennings 2 Comments

These are three different Great Blue Herons I saw around the ponds on a recent walk.

At this time of year they are pretty content to just stand around in the sun.

This corner of the pond is completely covered in duck weed. All that green gives the appearance of full summer, despite it being early November.

Wading Birds

Great Blue Herons Tucked in the Grass

October 10, 2020 Ellen Jennings 2 Comments

It was a morning for Great Blue Herons to stay tucked into the grass, not quite hiding. In this first image the heron is standing in a tidal creek, the sun had just come up but was behind a low bank of clouds.

The second one I spotted was on the edge of a canal around one of the old rice fields.

A little later on the sun became brighter, highlighting the change in color in the grass around this pond from green to autumn browns and golds. Wading birds often gather on the edges of these hillocks of marsh grass, uncaring about the passing Alligators.

Donnelley Wildlife Management Area
October 2, 2020

Wading Birds

Great Blue Heron

September 18, 2020 Ellen Jennings 4 Comments

A Great Blue Heron was standing at the edge of a canal where the grasses are starting to show signs of fall, changing color and fallen over with their weight.

Bear Island Wildlife Management Area, SC
September 6, 2020

Landscape, Wading Birds

Marsh Scene with GBH

September 14, 2020 Ellen Jennings Leave a comment

Donnelley Wildlife Management Area, SC
August 16, 2020

Wading Birds

Good Monday Morning

September 7, 2020 Ellen Jennings Leave a comment

The sun was up but stubbornly hiding behind a cloud, the birds were a bit far and the water was kind of crinkly, but the company was perfect.

Sunday morning, Donnelley Wildlife Management Area, SC.

Wading Birds

Great Blue Heron in Flight

July 5, 2020 Ellen Jennings 6 Comments

I’m revisiting some images I took last fall using Topaz Sharpen AI. I might have overdone it just a bit, especially around the Great Blue Heron’s head.

I like the second image a little better with the shadow of the right wing falling on the left wing.