"That almost looks like a great blue heron," I think to myself.
I look again.
It is a great blue heron.
Great blue herons are not supposed to be here in December.
Poor, cold, hungry heron. I hope it has a stretch of shallow open water somewhere.
(Thanks, USGS, for the heron pic.)
2 comments:
Your Heron looks very like our grey heron. But it might be bigger. Ours stay around all year, though frozen rivers, ponds etc. don't help it.
I hope your heron finds somewhere with food.
Are you a bird watcher, or do you just know about herons?
Oh, I love birding! As you can see, I even do it commuting (one of the best ways to see the local fauna anyway.)
Our great blue herons have a black crest -- you can't see it too well in this photo -- that I don't think your herons have. And I'm not sure about the size differential.
Interesting factoid: Herons were a bird sacred to Freya, Germanic goddess of love. (Of course, pigs were also sacred to Freya -- not quite as lovely a totem animal.)
Post a Comment