These are becoming my favorite birds to photograph:
Well….big, and common; what more can one ask?
They almost never let me down when I lock-and-dam, as here at No. 9 near Lynxville, WI:
Or if I visit the Busse Woods rookery in northwest Cook County, IL, as here in 09June:
At the Keokuk L-a-D we watched as a heron ambled around the front of the dam, down and along a catwalk, hopping down into the empty lock and walking over to where some fishing was to be had in a channel in the lock floor:
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After a little trouble getting such a fresh meal to stop kicking
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well, dinner got et:
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and then our gal went back to grooming:
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