Ardea herodias

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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Great Blue Herons

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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