Great Blue Herons in Cesar Chavez Park: Videos
Great Blue at Low Tide
The very low tide of minus 0.6 brought out several egrets and herons, including this formidable Great Blue. While I
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Rain didn’t bother this Great Blue Heron. It posed motionless on the kite lawn, waiting for something edible to pop
Read moreGreat Blue on Paper
Artist Linda Morris, who did the watercolor of Burrowing Owls, also painted a Great Blue Heron she saw in the
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This Great Blue perched on a rock at the water’s edge on the east side of the park near
Read moreGreat Blue at Sunset
In the fading light of sunset, this Great Blue Heron on the mudflats at the south end of the North
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At the same spot where I saw the huge dark Great Blue Heron in late May, I saw another of
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A visit from a Great Blue Heron is always an attention-getter at the park. This individual held court on the
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I haven’t seen “Oscar,” the battle-scarred hunk of a Great Blue Heron, for a couple of years, at least. But a
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After an absence of many months, a Great Blue Heron visited the park Saturday 4/25. This was a different individual
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(Burrowing Owl Update Below) With my eyes focused on the water, I twice missed the Great Blue Heron standing quietly
Read moreBlue on Gray
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) This big bird almost blended into the gray that surrounded us. Gray sky, gray water, grass
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The Great Blue Heron dominates not only in the wet shallows and on dry land but also high up in
Read moreHerons Brown and Blue
Great Blue Herons come in a variety of colors. I like to photograph them up close if I can and
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This Great Blue Heron merits this media coverage not because it’s catching anything or pecking at anybody or showing any
Read moreBossy Blue
Herons and cormorants have very different styles of hunting. The herons (and their family members, the egrets) stay mostly still
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