Green Heron Perched On A Dock Line
Stepping out, looking around and then down from my balcony, I spotted a delight.
Photo opportunities like this make for happy dances! 💃
Green Heron
The Green Heron is about the size of an American Crow.
In North America, the Green Heron is the smallest of the heron family.
Green Heron
Turning around ever so slowly……
Green Heron
….giving me the hint a launch was forthcoming.
Green Heron
The past six weeks we’ve had several Green Herons fishing daily from the dock braces at the water’s edge around the creek. One day, I could count five in my view.
Which means…..more of my favorites of the striking Green Heron to come. 🙂
Photos by Donna 
They are a beautiful bird Donna, just the same yet smaller! The color is attractive too. 😍
Thank you, John! I’ve had a lot of fun with these birds the last several weeks.
Great shots Donna! At my old home we used to photograph Green Herons At a local Wildlife Refuge. They were always fun to watch and photograph! Usually they were quite active!
Thank you, Reed! I’ve been really enjoying them these past weeks. You’re right, they are constantly on the move!
Learned something today! Thanks Donna! Once again beautiful photos! 🙂
Thank you and you’re quite welcome!! 🙂
Such beautiful pictures!
Thank you!
That last photo would have me doing a happy dance as well. Nicely done!
Thank you, Ingrid! I’ve been longing to get these uploaded……so I could happy dance all over again! 😉
Nice shots. Great to see one in a different environment.
Thank you, Ted!
These are wonderful!
Thank you, Kathy!
Such a gorgeous bird! Terrific captures, Donna.
Thank you, Eliza! 💃
I like these guys! They are cool to photograph. they can pose so static that you can shoot at slow shutter speed and will come out perfectly sharp. Great captures, Donna. 🙂
Thank you, HJ! 🙂
Beautiful captures Donna!
Thank you, Ashley!
Thank you for sharing your portraits of this gorgeous bird, Donna. They made me smile.
Best,
Tanja
Thank you, Tanja, I love making you smile! 😊
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He is very colourful and a sight to behold!
Thank you, Jane!
Eric spotted and captured a Green Heron while hiking along our creek. They’re super shy and flighty out here, so very hard to photograph. Yours is beautiful. That last shot gives a hint of why someone named this bird a GREEN heron… it’s the closest suggestion of green I’ve ever seen.
Thank you, Gunta, I couldn’t help spooking this one, as soon as I saw him, he saw me and said “I’m outta here!” It was a fast few seconds. I do love the dock lines in my cropped shots, but I bet Eric’s creek shot is a much better habitat photo! 😉
Love that 3rd picture, especially with the rope and piece of wood. It’s funny how these little things enhance a picture. 🙂
Thank you, Mike! I love anything wood and even dock lines in my shots, and was tickled with the cropping I could do with them in these shots of the heron. 🙂
A beautiful bird!
They are, thank you, Takami!
This Green Heron is a gorgeous bird. Grat photos, Donna.
Thank you, Isabel!
Great pics….this is the beauty of WordPress, we get to see birds, bees and everything else that we don’t get to see in our own countries. Herons we get but not Green Herons 🙂
Thank you, David, I so agree! These little herons are adorable and can stretch their necks pretty far, I’ve got shots of that long neck in some other ops I’ll be sharing. 🙂
Awesome pictures!!
Thank you, Indira!!
I look forward to your next set of pictures oi this beautiful bird.
Thank you, Tom!
Superb shots, Donna! 🙂
Thank you, Tom! 🙂
beauty shots Donna!
Thank you, Wayne!
A great action series, Donna! You really captured the colors, too.
Thank you, Ellen!
I love the Green Herons! They’re so expressive and so photogenic ☺️. These are all great shots – love the inflight shot. They can be tricky to catch in flight.
Thank you, Carol! It has been an awesome few weeks of seeing them flying all over the creek from fishing spot to fishing spot. I’ve been having lots of fun trying to capture them. 🙂
So fun that they’re so close.
Wonderful series of photos!!
Thank you!
What a beauty. Very nice Donna!
Thank you, Belinda!