Great Blue Herons
Great Blue Herons are in abundance around the Chesapeake Bay area year-round. Lucky me! They are one of my favorite birds to photograph.
Here are more of my favorite shots from the past summer not previously shared.
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron in landing mode
Great Blue Heron and his reflection
Great Blue Heron thru the marsh grasses
Great Blue Heron preening
Sometimes they tell a joke and we all have a good laugh!
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They are indeed beautiful birds and your photos are very nice. (Suzanne)
Thank you Suzanne!
Always one of my favorites! Nice captures, Donna, of the GBH in various poses.
Thank you, Ellen! They sure are hard to pass up when you see one. 😉
The in flight shot with the reflection is pretty spectacular.
Thank you, David, I cropped to vertical but my fault for not getting the entire reflection, darn it…. Still cool though, I thought too!
Love em, 🙂
Thank you, Ted! 🙂
Beautiful photos Donna, such a tall, slender bird. 🙏🏻❤️
Thank you, John!
Great shots, just love that reflection one.
Thank you, Brian! I wish I had gotten the whole reflection but still neat-o! 🙂
They always look good and interesting for photos. Great shots Donna. 🙂
Not moving much or fast at times for hours helps us! Thank you, HJ! 🙂
Excellent images of one of my favorite species of bird to photograph also. They’re magnificent, especially with their wings spread as a couple of your images show.
Thank you, Jerry! It’s pretty hard to pass up on one when you see a GBH. Hard!! 😉
I really like herons so this was a treat. I liked the reflective shot a lot.
Thank you, Tom! Wish I hadn’t missed the whole reflection but still thought a cool shot too!
Great shots, Donna! I especially love the one of him preening. As many photos as I have taken of gbh’s, I’m always excited to get another one. It never grows old! Thanks for sharing, and I’m glad you are ‘back in action’ behind the camera!
Thank you, Susan! I lean heavily on the preening shot myself as a high favorite. I bet your GBH photo library is as big as mine, busting at the seams on space! It’d take me a week or more to go through them all to pinpoint the ultimate favorites. That’s probably not even possible, now that I think about it, too many! 😉 Thanks for the welcome back too.
Great captures, Donna. My favorite bird to photograph too. They have so many different guises. 😀
Thank you, Sylvia, they do! 🙂
Ah, those legs! 🙂
They go on for miles! 😉
I see them often in Alaska, they are a nice bird.
I did not know they were in Alaska, how cool! They are a hardy bird and definitely fun to photograph!
I have also seen them on the East coast, in NY I believe. Kind of awkward on take off and landings, but for sure a fun bird to watch.
Some magnificent shots Donna, and each one has its own individual peculiarity highlighting different aspects of the birds. Love the flight shot reflection pic. Thanks for sharing one of your favorite birds. Enjoy the rest of your week!
Thank you, Ashley! They are so majestic, I cannot pass up taking a photo of one. i have way too many favorites in my huge library of them. They were my Mom’s favorite bird well before I began bird photography, and she easily got me hooked on their beauty. It was so enjoyable sharing my captures with her. I hope she’s now out with me watching them each time. 🙂 I’m going to enjoy mine, heading to grandson #3 for couple days of love & laughter, I hope you’ll enjoy yours just as well!
Fantastic shots of one of my favorite birds. We seem to have them year round here, but I made a discovery yesterday on my way north to one of the larger towns for shopping. It seems that they like to stand on old decaying pilings along a slough, but they hunker down so they almost look like part of the post (without the typical stretched neck pose). I can’t help but wonder how many times I might have passed them by without noticing when they were like that? I’ve also seen them flying up and down our creek at times, but I’m never fast or prepared enough to catch a shot. They seem to take a short cut over our house where there’s a bend in the creek. 😀
My favorite of the series is the fourth shot, with the water for background really highlighting this magnificent bird.
Thank you, Gunta! Sounds like you have a place to visit here and there for the GBHs, nice! That shot of mine you liked, I could not believe how the colors came out for that day. It almost looks like a painting to me. 🙂
Superb photos of the Herons!
Thank you very much, Terry!
Lovely photos, Donna. I, too, cannot walk past a Great Blue Heron without trying to get a photograph. They are so elegant, yet so nonchalant at the same time.
Thank you, Tanja, they are an awesome temptation. 🙂
Awesome pics Donna, very clear and detailed shots. I like watching birds like these when they hunt for food, they look like they’re walking on stilts and they have deadly precision!
Thank you, Sue! And they teach us patience while we watch in wonder, I just love them!
Great images, Donna! I enjoy seeing these birds too, and think that not all dinosaurs went extinct when I spot these glorious birds.
Thank you, Jane! They are a top favorite of mine. 🙂
Cool preening photo! RH
Thank you, RH! I do lean to that one being added as a big GBH favorite of mine now with all the photos I have of them. 😊