Great Blue Heron in my yard

MarcPerr

12 years ago

Saw this great blue heron walking across my backyard last summer.

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surya55_gw
12 years ago
Wow- what a great shot! He/She looks very regal strutting around your yard:)
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12 years ago
Just checked out your Feral Forest Facebook page. Wonderful photos and very informative. I will go back and look at all your albums. Keep up the good work.

As to GBH, fantastic bird! Love these! I see one occasionally on my 1.6 acre rural property near my creek (obviously) but have never had the camera with me at the time.

I did catch one on film a few years ago sitting atop my neighbour's shed. Absolutely stunning creatures!

When in Florida, walking along the beach, they are so used to people, I could walk right up to it - about 5 feet away to take pics. Love these majestic birds!
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There are white herons BTW. Egrets are smaller than white herons. I use a black bird net bought at Wal-mart. I pounded six 24" rebar, 3 to a side. I then put black plastic piping over the rebar to it arches over the pond. On top of that I stretched the netting and secured it with electrical zip fasteners in various places. I can lift the whole thing off or just one end if I need to access part of the pond and slip it right back on when done. I live in Great Blue Heron land and they fly over my house at any time. After a few years of no fish being eaten I thought I'd take it off and put up a double row of fencing on the edge and also strung fishing line in triple rows. It was not a day or two the heron came back and ate another fish, so I put my portable net back up. My net extends beyond the edges of the pond by about 12 to 18 inches but is open by about 12" so frogs can move in and out safely and also birds. Herons won't duck under it. From nancyd: "Use bird netting - it's virtually undetectable and cheap. I've purchased decorative four foot posts and stretch the netting over them so that it hangs 3/4 of the way down the posts. This allows birds, toads and frogs access to the pond without getting caught in it. Easy to pull off when you need to. The only thing I've sacrificed are dragonflies. They don't like flying under the net unfortunately. We have not lost a single fish since we put up the netting." I like the idea of using decorative poles so I may switch out my black tubing. The black netting is invisible from not so far away from the pond, but I can see my piping even though it looks OK I'd rather not see much at all. I'd like this to go straight across with no hanging down and take it out beyond the pond edge right up to the pondside plantings. I think I would like it to be 12" off the top of the water and pulled very tight. Thanks for the idea Nancy!
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lol My neighbors think I'm crazy. They caught me crawling over the 6' privacy fence in my bathrobe one day trying to get a picture of an elusive Ovenbird that was under their lilac bush. I think I've scarred them for life!
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12 years ago
Another - close up
catherinet
12 years ago
Oh wow.........great pics both of you!

I have a large creek that runs through my property and occasionally they look for fish there.

I was walking back to the house last summer after closing up my chickens, and there, sitting on our TV antenna was a GBH! Didn't have my camera, but wow........

Oh.....and I have a little watergarden in my back yard. One time I came home from shopping and one was perched on the house, looking down at the watergarden. I don't have fish.....but do have frogs and snakes. It's always hard to know who to root for!
MarcPerr
Original Author
12 years ago
Thanks, everyone. Those photos are brilliant!
My Feral Forest site is all for fun. My current hobby is wild plant photography and identification, even though I'm not very good at it yet.
catherinet
12 years ago
Marc......are you posting any of those plant pics on another forum here? I'd love to see them. Ever since we got an electric raised golf cart, I have delighted in finding new wild plants.
One of the biggest surprises was several big stands of wild ginger. .......oh, and casmassia.

I had planted a jack-in-the-pulpit something like 20 years ago. I thought it had never grown. Last summer, I went to plant another one, and something caught my eye.........it was a 2' tall jack-in-the-pulpit! I was so excited I almost burst!

I'm never going to tire of exploring and appreciating nature!
MarcPerr
Original Author
12 years ago
catherinet, no, I haven't posted much here. You can see them on Facebook if you have an account there. If you can't see them, let me know. I haven't done much to encourage followers because it's a work in progress and IDs are tentative.
https://www.facebook.com/theferalforest/photos_albums
catherinet
12 years ago
Thanks Marc........I'll take a look.

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