wildcritters Nature Photography

CRITTER PHOTO #904 

Birds, Heron

Great Blue (portrait)

   

Great Blue Heron (f)

[Ardea herodias]

2/11/2019

Verplanck NY

Most great blue herons prefer to fly south for the winter. The hardy few who remain must abandon their favored diet of fish whenever streams and rivers freeze to hunt the fields for small mammals.

Photo# 904

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