Great Blue Herons

Farmington Utah’s Voles – Just My Opinion

By Mia McPherson|June 25th, 2012|Categories: American Kestrels, Antelope Island State Park, Conservation, Coyotes, Environment, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Glacier County, Great Blue Herons, Great Horned Owls, Loggerhead Shrikes, Montana, Northern Harriers, Rough-legged Hawks, Salt Lake Valley, Utah|Tags: American Kestrel, Coyote, ecosystem, environment, Foxboro Community, Gray Ghost, Great Blue Heron, Great Horned Owl, humane society, Loggerhead Shrike, natural predators, Northern Harrier, Rough-legged Hawk, Utah, vole infestation, voles|

Recently KSL.com; a Utah news station, had an article about a vole (a small rodent) infestation In Farmington, specifically in the neighborhood of Foxboro Community. While I sympathize with the residents about the damage being done to their yards I am disturbed by the advice many of the people commenting have left on the story.

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Great Blue Heron in Low Light

By Mia McPherson|February 25th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, bird photography, coast, coastal, dawn, earth shadow, Great Blue Heron, Gulf of Mexico, heron, herons, low light, low tide, wading birds, water|

The sun had not yet crested the eastern horizon when I photographed this Great Blue Heron as it hunted in the shallow waters on the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Great Blue Heron at Sunrise

By Mia McPherson|January 10th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, autumn, catch light, close up, coast, coastal, fall, Great Blue Heron, Gulf of Mexico, heron, herons, pano composition, portrait, sunrise, wading birds, water|

Another one of the reasons I enjoy this photo is that the eye of the Great Blue Heron has a colored catchlight that is from the sun glowing yellow on the eastern horizon.

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Low light Great Blue Heron with Earth Shadow

By Mia McPherson|October 23rd, 2011|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, Belt of Venus, coast, coastal, difficult conditions, earth shadow, Earth's Shadow, experimentation, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, high ISO's, low light, wading birds|

The Great Blue Heron images from the series I created that blustery November morning on Fort De Soto's north beach are still favorites of mine and likely always will be.

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Rainy Days – Time to Review and Redo

By Mia McPherson|August 2nd, 2011|Categories: Birds, Florida, Great Blue Herons, Snowy Egrets, White Ibises|Tags: Ardea herodias, bird photography, birds, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, Eudocimus albus, Florida, Great Blue Heron, Gulf of Mexico, heron, herons, photography, Snowy Egret, water, waves, White Ibis|

Yesterday the monsoons came up from the south which meant lots of rain on moisture laden winds.

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Gray Days

By Mia McPherson|January 8th, 2011|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Royal Terns|Tags: Ardea herodias, bird photography, birding, birds, gray days, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, Royal Tern, tern, terns, Thalasseus maximus, wading birds|

Gray days sometimes force me to slow down, to take a deep breath and they allow me the luxury of liesurely looking through my older image files

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By Mia McPherson|September 26th, 2010|Categories: Bird ID, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County, Roosevelt Wetlands, Utah|Tags: adult, Ardea herodias, baiting ethics, bird photography, close up, ethics, flight, flying, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, hunting, immature, juveniles, nest, nesting, perched, portrait, prey, sand dune, snag, snow, stalking, wading birds, wetlands, winter|

Great Blue Herons are North America's largest heron and one of the three largest herons in the world.

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