Great Blue Emerges After The Plunge
by Steve Gass
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Great Blue Emerges After The Plunge
Artist
Steve Gass
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Photograph - Photograph
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Nature's fisherman, a Great Blue Heron (Ardea Herodias) is emerging from a small pond in Fishers, Indiana. Widespread and familiar (though often called "crane"), the largest heron in North America. Often seen standing silently along inland rivers or lakeshores, or flying high overhead, with slow wingbeats, its head hunched back onto its shoulders. Highly adaptable, it thrives around all kinds of waters from subtropical mangrove swamps to desert rivers to the coastline of southern Alaska. With its variable diet it is able to spend the winter farther north than most herons, even in areas where most waters freeze.
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April 19th, 2017
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William Tasker
Great shot of the drippy, but still beautiful bird! Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World, a nature photography group. L/F
Morris Finkelstein
Beautiful close up photo of a Great Blue Heron, with great pose, colors, clarity, reflections, and perspective, Steve! F/L
Don Columbus
Congratulations Steve, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings"! I invite you to place it in the group's "2017 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Anita Faye
Steve, fantastic drenched Great Blue Heron! Featured on Poetic Poultry! https://fineartamerica.com/groups/poetic-poultry-.html
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