Tuesday, April 23, 2013



63 Great Blue Heron
  • A group of Great Blue Heron are called a; Battery / Hedge / Pose / Rockery / Scattering.
  • I like a Pose.  This bird when seen seems to always be posing.  Although it has several very interesting poses.
  • These birds love fish farms, this can be a problem but studies have shown that they pick off the sick.  So it works out for the hatchery. 
  • They have a great appetite for fish of all sizes and have been known to chok themselves to death on too large a meal.  Yikes.
  • They will also eat small mammals , frogs, snakes, insects and so on, what they can find when fish aren't available.
  • These birds nest in trees.  It is very odd seeing a bird of this size land in a tree.  The nests are in groups called a Heronry.  the Heron is very temperamental and do not like to be disturbed when nesting.  If they are they could abandon the nest.  When I was young there was a Heronry on the river and we were not allowed down there until late spring after the Herons had left the nest. 
  • Here are some poses.

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