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VIDEO: Blue Heron In My Backyard?
YouTube ^ | February 24, 2019 | DUmmie FUnnies

Posted on 02/24/2019 5:03:20 AM PST by PJ-Comix

VIDEO

Is that a Blue Heron in my backyard? Yeah, I know that at first I thought it was a Stork in the video but finally figured out that it was probably a Heron of some type. But is this a Blue Heron even though it seems mostly gray? As you can tell, I am no ornithologist.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: blueheron; greatblueheron
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To: PJ-Comix

Great fun video of a beautiful Great Blue Heron. Hearing you say, “nice stork” made me smile. I’ve had a GB Heron come to the creek in my back woods from time to time. There is no way my guy will let me get as close as you got to this one. However, when I was at the beach on the Florida Panhandle last September, I was able to get as close to one there as you did. It was a huge thrill for me. He posed and posed as I took one photo after another. Thanks for sharing your video.


41 posted on 02/24/2019 6:12:18 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: PJ-Comix

I have pink ones with metal rods holding them up.


42 posted on 02/24/2019 6:13:45 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: chajin

Or, a blue xion.


43 posted on 02/24/2019 6:14:25 AM PST by moovova
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To: BuffaloJack

Neighbor bought sporty koi to the tune of a couple grand for his pond.
He went on vacation and a family of otters paid his pond a visit and ate all the expensive koi.
Man he was mad.


44 posted on 02/24/2019 6:17:49 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Hot Tabasco

There have been a couple of RWBBs coming to my feeders since the last week of January. I’ve heard they are here year round, but I haven’t usually seen them until April, as you mentioned. I’m also enjoying seeing the Red-breasted Nuthatch this year. What a cute little friendly guy!


45 posted on 02/24/2019 6:17:52 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: PJ-Comix

I think Great Blue Heron, as opposed to a Little Blue Heron.


46 posted on 02/24/2019 6:18:58 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: PJ-Comix

Those things are delicious!


47 posted on 02/24/2019 6:21:02 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Hot Tabasco

I did buy a blue heron decoy like the one in your link. It worked for about a month.


48 posted on 02/24/2019 6:21:56 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: PJ-Comix

We have a blue heron couple that does pond hopping on our road which has many homes with ponds on a mile long stretch. One Blue Heron is a light gray and the other is a bluish dark grey. They only fly together when the mating season is in full swing and I have seen the same couple year after year for the last 5 years or so. They are solitary birds when not in the mating season. We see herons quite often in our area in western Tennessee. They like to be near or in ponds usually at the edge.

We have a lot of year round geese who frequent the same ponds.


49 posted on 02/24/2019 6:22:42 AM PST by KMac1945 (99% Lurker, before joining FR lurked since 2008)
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To: _longranger81

When they come in for a landing by the pond they often come right over my house. When outside and a 6 foot wingspan goes over your head unexpectedly you duck.


50 posted on 02/24/2019 6:23:04 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: depressed in 06

My goldfish nemises are racoons.


51 posted on 02/24/2019 6:24:02 AM PST by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
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To: BuffaloJack
That is why a keep a 17 WSM zeroed at 100 by the front door. These things get in my stock tank and eat my perch I use for fishing cats in the river.

At 300 yards the 17 WSM is 4" low. The dam is 312 yards. Piece of cake

52 posted on 02/24/2019 6:24:17 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Chipper

When I lived in Broward County, I saw these gorgeous birds all the time.

But it didn’t QUITE make up for living in Broward County! LOL! :-)


53 posted on 02/24/2019 6:27:38 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: PJ-Comix

Definitely a blue heron. They are as thick as thieves here in west Kentucky. If you see water, you’ll see a heron. Has really hurt the frog population, making frog gigging somewhat harder.

That being said, I love blue herons, one of my favorite birds.


54 posted on 02/24/2019 6:27:40 AM PST by TruBluKentuckian
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To: Hot Tabasco

I got him an artificial heron which he placed next to the pond and that kept the real one away...... .................. It works! Had the same problem here in my little pond in front of the house. I have a river behind the house, they can do what they want there. They ate 3 nests of Ruby Cichlids, but then again, the Cichlids should have stayed in Tanzania, they didn’t belong in FLA. (Folks down here have a habit of dumping their fish tanks in the river when they move.)


55 posted on 02/24/2019 6:30:54 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Looks like it could be a sandhill crane to me.

We get them around our farm at different times of the year. But they usually are in pairs but not always.

They make an unusual, recognizable sound.

56 posted on 02/24/2019 6:35:33 AM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: KMac1945

Here in S.E. Michigan, there are two nesting sites in swamp areas, each about 10 miles from me. I never new they nested high up in the dead trees, I always thought they were ground nesters.


57 posted on 02/24/2019 6:37:28 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: PJ-Comix; SWAMPSNIPER

Ping in memory of swampsniper...


58 posted on 02/24/2019 6:41:14 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: PJ-Comix

Blue heron..see them all the time here in Florida. They are active at night too. I can hear them yak yak as they fly over all hours. They’re very mouthy if you displease them by shooing them off your boat or seawall or whatever. They’re big crappers too.


59 posted on 02/24/2019 6:41:17 AM PST by lilypad
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To: ETL

Everybody is wrong! It’s a stork! Better start setting up the nursery! ;)


60 posted on 02/24/2019 6:45:15 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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