A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) away from the water. It’s unusual to see them on dry land, for me anyway! Perhaps it was hunting mice!
2017/08/18 | Categories: Birds, Heron | Tags: Bird, Great Blue Heron, Heron, Nature | 6 Comments
A Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) perched in it’s usual daylight perch, deep in the branches. This one seems a bit annoyed with it’s head plumes blowing in the wind. It had been sleeping until the plumes started whipping about!
2017/03/20 | Categories: Birds | Tags: B.C., Bird, Black-crowned Night Heron, Heron, Ladner, Nature, Reifel | 6 Comments
A Great Blue Heron (Andea herodias) in a local farmers field hunting for summer. We stopped on the road and I guess it didn’t like our presence, even though we were a distance away. It started to leave and then decided to stay after this great wing display!
2017/02/25 | Categories: Birds, Great Blue Heron, Heron | Tags: B.C., Bird, Field, Glenn Valley, Great Blue Heron, Heron, hunting, Nature, Wing, Wing Span | 4 Comments
A juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticoras nycticorax) hiding in the shadows.
2017/01/14 | Categories: Birds, Heron | Tags: Bird, Black-crowned Night Heron, Heron, Juvenile, Nature, Reifel | 12 Comments
A Great Blue Heron making itself comfortable on a nesting box at the bird sanctuary.
2016/11/08 | Categories: Birds, Great Blue Heron, Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary | Tags: Bird, Great Blue Heron, Heron, Nesting Box | 4 Comments
A Great Blue Heron, having some success catching little silver fish in the marsh. Don’t know how many of those little guys make up a meal!
2016/09/26 | Categories: Birds, Great Blue Heron | Tags: Abbotsford, B.C., Eating, Fish, Great Blue Heron, Heron, hunting, Willburn Creek | 6 Comments
A Great Blue Heron, (GBH) perched on a deadfall birch tree. This bird had quite stunning colours.
2016/07/20 | Categories: Birds, Heron | Tags: B.C., GBH, Great Blue Heron, Heron, Ladner | 8 Comments
Here’s a Black-capped Night Heron at it’s normal roost deep in the branches of a tree.
It had it’s back to the wind which was blowing his plumes up over it’s face.
2016/03/21 | Categories: Birds, Heron, Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary | Tags: B.C., Black-capped Night-Heron, Heron, Ladner, Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary | 6 Comments
A Great Blue Heron, standing on a dead Birch tree.
2016/02/17 | Categories: Birds | Tags: B.C., Dead Tree, Great Blue Heron, Heron, Ladner | 8 Comments
An odd sort of fellow. Here’s a Black-crowned Night Heron.
It’s unusual to see them with their eyes open during the day.
2016/01/07 | Categories: Birds, Heron | Tags: B.C., Black-capped Night-Heron, Heron, Ladner | 7 Comments
A stern look from a Great Blue Heron
2015/12/11 | Categories: Birds, Great Blue Heron | Tags: Great Blue Heron, Heron, Ladner, Stern look | 12 Comments
A Black-Capped Night Heron safely perched in the middle of a Cherry Tree.
2015/12/07 | Categories: Birds | Tags: B.C., Black-capped Night-Heron, Cherry tree, Heron, Ladner, Red Eye, Safe | 6 Comments
A Great Blue Heron waits patiently for a shinny fish to swim by for lunch!
2015/09/18 | Categories: Birds | Tags: Great Blue Heron, Green, Heron, hunting, Long Grass, Water | 8 Comments
Here’s another long legged bird: A Great Blue Heron, perched on a branch beside a pond
2015/09/08 | Categories: Birds | Tags: B.C., Great Blue Heron, Heron, Ladner | 2 Comments
A Great Blue Heron disappearing into the background
2015/09/04 | Categories: Birds | Tags: Great Blue Heron, Heron, Hidden, Ladner, Leaves | 2 Comments
A Great Blue Heron soaking in the sun on a cold December morning.
2014/12/05 | Categories: Birds, Great Blue Heron | Tags: B.C., Great Blue Heron, Heron, Ladner, Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary | 6 Comments
A close up and “Hi, How are Ya”
of the Great Blue Heron.
Always intense!
2014/11/21 | Categories: Birds | Tags: B.C., Great Blue Heron, Heron, Ladner, Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary | 10 Comments
