Butorides virescens – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Photographing My First Green Heron In Northern Utah

By Mia McPherson|2023-10-16T08:27:04-05:00September 24th, 2020|Categories: American White Pelicans, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Green Herons, Long-tailed Weasels, Utah|Tags: adult, American White Pelican, Butorides virescens, duckweed, Green Heron, half blind, hatch year bird, heron, herons, immature, Long-tailed Weasel, marsh, missing eye, Mustela frenata, one-eared, one-eyed, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, pelican, pelicans, rare, standing, sub-adult, subadult, uncommon, wading birds, water, weasel, weasels|

It was a terrific "season opener" for me yesterday thanks to my keen observation skills at Farmington Bay WMA with a Green Heron, one-eared Long-tailed Weasel and a one-eyed American White Pelican.

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Green Heron In A Maple Swamp At Saw Grass Lake Park

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-28T11:45:57-05:00April 1st, 2020|Categories: Birds, Florida, Green Herons, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, boardwalk, Butorides virescens, Covid-19 pandemic, flash, Green Heron, heron, herons, low light, maple swamp, swamp, wading birds, wetlands|

This Green Heron was photographed not long after I first started focusing on and photographing birds while I still lived in Florida.

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Stretching Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-28T11:49:08-05:00November 8th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Florida, Green Herons, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, branch, Butorides virescens, Green Heron, heron, herons, inland, maple swamp, stretching, swamp, wading bird, wading birds, water, wetlands|

This Green Heron was photographed from and elevated boardwalk at Sawgrass Lake Park, it had been preening when I walked slowly up to it and when it stretched its wing I took this image.

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Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park – From My Early Days of Being a Bird Photographer

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-28T11:51:05-05:00December 10th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Florida, Green Herons, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, Butorides virescens, Green Heron, herons, maple swamp, reflection, swamp, wading birds, water, wetlands|

I photographed this Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park in Pinellas County, Florida with my first DSLR, a Nikon D70, when I was just getting into bird photography.

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Green Heron reacts to a Broad-winged Hawk

By Mia McPherson|2021-05-28T11:55:28-05:00August 24th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Green Herons, Pinellas County, Sawgrass Lake Park|Tags: adult, behavior, Broad-winged Hawk, Butorides virescens, Green Heron, heron, herons, maple swamp, perched, predator, reacting, reacts, swamp, wading birds, wetlands|

One morning in 2008 I photographed this Green Heron at Sawgrass Lake Park in Pinellas County, Florida as it perched and preened on broken branch that was laying in the water.

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