Great Blue Herons

Ardea herodias

Great Blue Herons are blue-gray with dark crowns and head plumes, long legs, necks and bills and the head, neck and wings give it a shaggy appearance.

Low light Great Blue Heron with Earth Shadow

By Mia McPherson|2021-08-19T07:33:37-05:00October 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.

Rainy Days – Time to Review and Redo

By Mia McPherson|2023-03-06T04:11:11-06:00August 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.

Gray Days

By Mia McPherson|2023-03-06T07:05:46-06:00January 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

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-14T06:40:15-05:00September 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.