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Great Blue Heron - - (Ardea herodias)

Wildlife Note Card Photography by Steven Holt

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Often out foraging well before dawn, Great Blue Herons can stand silently for hours waiting for fish to come within striking distance. Sometimes they can be less patient, grabbing bait and prize catches from fishermen's unattended buckets. Standing four feet tall with a seven foot wingspan, the Great Blue Heron is impressive, and, except in southern Florida, unmistakable. There the white form of the Great Blue Heron can be confused with the crestless and slightly smaller Great Egret. Usually nesting high in trees, Great Blue Herons often form small loosely defined colonies. The nest starts as a well woven platform of sticks about eighteen inches across, and over a period of years may be expanded to three or four feet across. Herons usually lay three to five blue green eggs, which hatch into perhaps the gawkiest youngsters of any bird. As down is replaced by feathers, the gawky young are transformed into beautiful birds. Stateliness has very long learning curve but is eventually achieved.
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Special thanks to Keith Iding for scanning the cards.