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Please act like you don't see him
Lady Rae
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He's terribly shy and would rather you kept driving.... Shhh
A very nice Great Blue Heron hunting/fishing in a water trough.
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
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LOL, nice
Around here he would probably find a frog or two. We have them and the little green herons visit our pond all summer long and it is fun watching them fish. Nice pic. Bob
We have the Blue Heron and the Night Heron... I really can't stand them. There cute birds but they fly into town to sleep and they stink 😜
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
I hate them.
They ate all the Brookies in one of my favorite streams.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Herons also know as shitepokes. (search why) They make their load lighter when they take flight. I've seen Buzzards do the same. Do not frighten one when they are flying overhead. (and do not look up)
If cranes (Herons) are numerous not many Bullfrogs and small snakes around for long.
We have lots of Blue Herons here, I see them every day in the French Broad River. Beautiful birds.
They all are wonderful at spearing gophers...
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
I saw a blue Herron pick a bluegill out of a lake and spin it around and swallow it head first in one slick move. I thought that has to hurt. That would be like one of us swallowing a pineapple.
There's a little restaurant we go to often Called Gill's by the Bay during crab season they cook fresh crab outside, anyway the young man who does that say a Heron get upset at a seagull that was in his way on the canal wall, he reached out and poked him and the gull fell off dead. Brent was in disbelief at the sight.
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
Here we call them a S**t-A-Quart. My best friend got me going with that one years ago. Of course, we're talking the same guy that also called crows "soul chickens".🤣
I knew a guy in Georgia, Jerry Tomlin, who liked to eat crow and even made a video about it.
He's bake the crow breasts in the oven with a little strip of bacon on top. I ate one one time, not bad.
When I was in high school, a friend's uncle had a ground hog take up residence in a corn field east of his barn. The field sloped down to a creek that ran along the eastern edge of the field and made a sharp turn defining the southern side of the field. There were small trees lining the creek bed. He asked us to shoot the ground hog as the bare patch in the middle of the field surrounding his burrow was growing larger every day. We went after school on Friday, thinking that would give us two days to try for him. We scoped out the situation and decided one would shoot from the barn, while the other would slip down before day light into the trees along the south side of the creek putting is both in line with the burrow and at 90 degrees to each other. We drew straws and I got the creek for the first day. We bedded down in the hay and slept well. Coffee on the Colman stove before dawn, and I was off across the barn yard to the creek bed. I slowly ease up creek to a good position for a prone shot. and settled in to wait. About a half hour after sunrise, I saw a head pop up for a quick scan and down again. Several minutes later the head came up again, and then sat with about half the body above ground. I was ready and so was Jerry. We both fired our .22s within a second of each other both hitting the ground hog. With the crack of my rifle the small trees above me began to rain fish. Half digested fish. It seems we have somehow missed noticing there was a heron rookery in those trees and the juvenile herons above me started regurgitating to repel the danger. It worked. I was later put into the back of the pick up and taken to the strip mine for the first rinse.
Despite that, I still like herons, have seen every species in North America and several additional species in other countries.
Here's one I saw 2 weeks ago in the French Broad River.
Open season on those vermin around here.
They along with otters will destroy a trout stream.
They make a mess out on our pier every summer🤨
Your pier? That is a heron rest stop. Get over yourself dude.😈😉
I'm used to seeing the large white splotches on the dock's roof, BUT... one must have been perched on the roof cross bar above our deck. Yeah, it lightened it's load alright, all over the deck. I needed the power washer to clean it off.