Is this a baby? I had heard one baby was out of the nest. What do you think? The story is these herons fight a lot. One may have fallen out. If this is a baby it is doing better than its siblings still in the nest. Sink of swim it is feeding itself it appears. I did not see the parents drop anything off for this one. I visited this one by kayak.
What is your verdict? Youngster? Or not?
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Well, I am no expert, but he looks young. These are beautiful photos!!
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Thanks!
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Youngster or not, the photos are beautiful!
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Taken on a kayak. Sometimes you see more that way.
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Fabulous pics!
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Thanks! It’s always great seeing wildlife!
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Maybe he just likes punk hairdos?? Beautiful bird.
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Ha!!! No feather brushes!
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The blue heron doesn’t look like the friendliest bird in these pictures.
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This baby did not seem concerned with me. I stood in a the same area for between 30 minutes and an hour and then it walked up pretty close to me. Kind of shocked me, so I stayed still. It needs to be a little more afraid of humans.
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Wow amazing photos! I especially love the first image💖
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Taken with a zoom from a kayak. I usually don’t get this close.
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The images were so clear/sharp, I liked the contrasting reeds behind the heron a lot.
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The water was still and there was no wind . That helps a lot.
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You’re wonderfully humble 🙂 and a great photographer.
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Such great shots, both bird and background. I have recently seen great blues, little blues, greens, and black-crowned nights. All exquisite.
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You have seen a lot more than I have. I have only seen green herons on one lake in Connecticut. Great blues are very common around here. They can be from time to time food for the eagles. There is a nest a short flight away with two babies. Sometimes the adults fly here to catch fish and birds.
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I saw the Green Heron in Arizona, the Little Blue Heron in Texas, the Black-crowned Nigh Heron in Utah, as well as the Great Blue. And I forgot the White Heron also called the Great Egret, which I saw in Arizona and Texas. Lots of herons!
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Young or not, they are fantastic images. 😊
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I am told they are of the youngster who fell out of the nest. The babies in the nest were brutal to each other when a parent brought by food. I actually don’t blame it for staying out of the nest.
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Great photos💙
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Thanks! No wind or wake made it easier.
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Yes, this is a young one. Certainly old enough to fend for himself too. We have a large number here, rookeries around us that we photograph every year. Nice photos, and yeah they fight constantly and at times the best thing is for a young one to leave before it gets hurt.
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We have one area of the county that is known to have several nests, but you can only see them from a bridge a distance away. This pair comes back every year and has young. They have multiple nests in the same tree, but they look awfully flimsy.
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We are lucky to have a large rookery just down the road, in a swamp on an old southern plantation. Herons and Egrets have nested there for hundreds of years. Audubon made some of his drawings here when first illustrating birds, and of course those famous Great Egret paintings.
I went to the plantation yesterday morning and bumped into multiple Herons, most too close for my usual telephoto lens. Hope to publish some in the next day or so. These big birds will ignore photographers since they were raised in this rookery staring at big lens 😂🤣😂
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I was suprised the baby who fell out of the nest came so close to me. I was about to leave when it came through the plants at low tide looking for fish. It totally ignored me.
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At an early age they have not learned to be afraid of people. Happens to me very often. For better or worse they soon learn to avoid us.
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Same is happening with one baby owl I am following. Everyone on the walking trail seems to hear him.
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Owls are like that here too. We have a few that will ignore you in their swamp. They will even drop and catch crayfish. There’s always water and distance between us and the owls so they feel safe.
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The parents have seen me enough to know I keep a distance and don’t bother them. I have seen them ignore me lately while they are hunting near the baby owl.
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