Always looking wonderful and always on the prowl even on a quiet cloudy afternoon. Great Blue Heron working a Lagoon off the Pacific Ocean.
Their myriad of colors is alway amazing but what always stuns me are those fully feathered big beefy legs.
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An excellent shot.
Thanks Jim.
Lovely colors! A favorite of mine, and a teacher of patience to the bird photographer! š
Hi Donna, yes these big birds to teach patience but if they get comfortable with you around they are wonderful to watch and photograph. Hop you week is going well and and wishing you a great day.
Thanks Mike, have a wonderful day too!
Your welcome and so far it has been a very nice morning.
Such a lovely bird. Nice pics. (Suzanne)
Thanks Suzanne. Hope your day is going well.
Great shot! Blue Heron was my dad’s favorite bird. š
Hi Sarah and heres to to you father then.
Thunder thighs! š
Perhaps a compliment if this was a male heron and not so much if a female. :=)
When they fly, they look like pterodactyls!
I wonder what a pterodactyls feathers might have looked like?
Or if there are fossils of them. I seem to remember there are…
I bet there are fossils. We have a nice paleontology museum nearby so maybe a trip down there to see should be on my itinerary.
I looked it up and pterodactyls had fur, like bats. Weird, huh? Kind of like the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz… Still, the fossils would be interesting.
Fur is not what I expected. Seem that would make flying difficult unless it was very short fur.