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great blue heron

Along the River , June 2009

A walk to a dam near my home.
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you should see an image here Thorns of an acacia tree.
you should see an image here Campion.
you should see an image here Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax
you should see an image here It was fishing in the rapids just below the dam.
you should see an image here Usually it stood right in the stream; fish would practically bump into it.
you should see an image here Sometimes it would perch on a rock.
you should see an image here Night heron trying to balance while lungeing for a fish.
you should see an image here Back on the rock.
you should see an image here The dam and the heron (lower left)
you should see an image here A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) came by a little later.
you should see an image here The great blue liked deeper water for fishing; here he's stopped to keep an eye on me.
you should see an image here Just after swallowing a fish.