Thursday – A Little Personal – Watch Heron

~ John W. Howell

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Here is a friend of mine that occasionally comes to survey what is going on from a perch on pole number 41. The entire beach has a marker every 10th of a mile, and this one is the pole near our walkover. In fact, you can see some of the construction rising out of the sand on the right side of the photo.

I like this heron since he is like a watchdog for the neighborhood. He is not easily distracted when he is sitting on pole 41. He will sit all day without complaint and pay either.

This photo was taken on Monday, Feb 1 at about 9:30 in the morning. The Gulf is to the right.

36 thoughts on “Thursday – A Little Personal – Watch Heron”

  4. We get a lot of grey herons on the river Taw estuary and one of the local National Trust houses, Arlington Court, has several roosting pairs that return to the estate year after year. The Trust have set up a hide beneath the tall pines that they nest in and each year we go out and watch the chicks (which appear to be made of badly assembled coat hangers) fledging, it’s very amusing.

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  7. Hi John,
    There are quite a few around, aren’t they? You know, I saw one on pole 70 lately [http://tinyurl.com/gw4erf9], and I’ve also seen them in and around the harbour on previous visits to Port A. Always good motifs, aren’t they?
    Have a wonderful day,
    Pit

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      1. They can be shy, can’t they? I’ll keep my fingers crossed, though, that you’ll manage to shoot him – with the camera, of course. I got a few pictures of a heron – and other birds – at the birding centre on South Padre Island last summer [http://tinyurl.com/huul4fw].

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        1. Your pictures are interesting. I have never seen the kind of Heron you have pictured around here. It is called a Louisiana Heron and sticks to the shore line of the Gulf Coast and most of Florida.

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