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  • Great Blue Balanced True

    Great Blue Balanced True

    Great Blue Balanced True - A great blue heron balances firmly on a branch with an equally well balanced reflection. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.

  • Heron Homing In On Crab Cornucopia

    Heron Homing In On Crab Cornucopia

    Heron Homing In On Crab Cornucopia - A yellow crowned night heron flies in on hundreds of fiddler crabs on a beach.

  • Black Crowned Night Heron Fishing

    Black Crowned Night Heron Fishing

    Black Crowned Night Heron Fishing - a black crowned night heron stalks along the shoreline searching for fish to grab.

  • Great Blue Breaking Through

    Great Blue Breaking Through

    Great Blue Breaking through - A great blue heron streaks close to the surface of a pond where its reflection breaks through the creative barrier. Hilton Head, South Carolina.

  • Heron in Crab Feast Heaven

    Heron in Crab Feast Heaven

    Heron in Crab Feast Heaven - A yellow crowned night heron flies to next location where hundreds of young fiddler crabs swarm on the beach

  • Black Crowned Night Heron Fishing

    Black Crowned Night Heron Fishing

    Black Crowned Night Heron Fishing - a black crowned night heron stalks along the shoreline searching for fish to grab.

  • Fiddler on the Hoof

    Fiddler on the Hoof

    Fiddler on the Hoof - A yellow crowned night heron has grabbed a fiddler crab by its fiddle and is about to swallow it in one gulp.

  • Three Hairy Heads

    Three Hairy Heads

    Three Hairy Heads - Three great blue heron chicks (weeks old) wait impatiently for the delivery of their next meal.

  • Black-Crowned Night Heron Fish Strike

    Black-Crowned Night Heron Fish Strike

    Black-Crowned Night Heron Fish Strike - A night heron strikes the water, jabbing for a fish.

  • Fiddler Crab Catch

    Fiddler Crab Catch

    Fiddler Crab Catch - A yellow crowned night heron chases, grabs, tosses and catches a fiddler crab. Hundreds of young fiddler crabs run from this wrecking crane.

  • Stealthy Strike

    Stealthy Strike

    Stealthy Strike - A great blue heron stretches its neck out very slowly as it prepares for stealthy strike

  • Great Blue Launching True

    Great Blue Launching True

    Great Blue Launching True - A Great Blue Heron jumps up from a lake to launch into a flight from danger. Belmar Lakewood, Colorado.

  • Great Blue Glides True

    Great Blue Glides True

    Great Blue Gliding True - A great blue heron with wings fully stretched glides to a fresh location for fishing.

  • Catch on a Hippo

    Catch on a Hippo

    Catch on a Hippo - A grey heron catches a fish while standing on the back of a hippopotomus. Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Arusha Region, Tanzania, Africa. We were eating brunch by a pond after a morning game drive when I watched a grey heron fly over us and land on the back of a hippo in the pond. I jumped up, grabbed my camera and ran to the pond's edge to photograph this unusual sight. Then the heron jabbed down into the water and came up with a fish. What a surprise to me and the fish.

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