Great Blue Heron and its reflection, Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, UtahGreat Blue Heron and its reflection – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1/1600, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light

I was planning on doing a different post this morning that included a video I took but when I tried to get to the video to link it I discovered that I couldn’t get to YouTube because Google was down world wide for a while today. Google is mostly back up now but it does make me wonder why it went down and who caused the global outage.  I still can’t get to the video I uploaded to YouTube last week.

Since things on Google were at a stand still this morning I decided I’d share a still life photo of a Great Blue Heron in a frosty, winter marsh.

Great Blue Herons are very patient hunters and there are times when they are hunting that they move so slowly that it is barely perceptible.

Great Blue Herons are year round residents here in northern Utah and even though our temps can be bitter cold during our harsh winters these herons not only survive, they thrive. When the water completely ices over they start stalking small rodents instead of fish.

I photographed this heron a week ago from two different angles and liked this angle the best because the water had so many reflections including the reflection of the heron. Farmington Bay WMA is a terrific place to see Great Blue Herons during the winter in the frosty marshes, flying overhead or perched on the man made heron rookery near the nature center.

There are times I wish I could wave a magic wand and gift people with the patience that these herons are known for. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

Life is good.

Mia

Click here to see more of my Great Blue Heron photos plus facts and information about this species.