I love Blue Herons. When we ride on the lake we see lots of them. I've never been able to catch a photo though. Yes, I've seen them fly low over the water.

Carla

gorgeous creatures! What a wonderful experience!

Behind our house, our neighbor has a nice fishing pond. I always enjoy watching that very large heron coming in for a landing about 5:30-6:00am every morning. It is such a handsome looking bird and VERY large.

Also the turkey vultures have been swarming more often lately. It is also fun watching them perform their figure 8's in the sky.

I love this time of year.

Deb

Beautiful. We have one on our land down the street who flies by here sometimes.

At where I used to work, we had one at the manmade pond! You could stand 6 feet away from him and see every movement. I never thought a heron would be up for that, but he came nearly every day. I always ate my lunch out with him and the geese.

They are beautiful creatures. You're lucky to have one nearby.

Michael

I just have to chime in. Yesterday morning as I turned onto the street of where I work Orange County, CA right in front of me was a big turkey vulture dragging a dead possum to the curb. There is not much left of that possum today.
We also enjoy the occasional blue herons and the numerous snowy egrets down at the creek near our house. We also see kites and kingfishers. Ah, life is good.

Since we just built a koi pond, Heron are now The Enemy. But I still like them, just not in my neighborhood. I saw a red shafted Northern Flicker on Sunday. I've never seen one of those before. Their favorite food is ants, which I have plenty of.