Heron

bittern
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Pacaro

Looking at it are Bitterns scene in the Long Island, NY area?

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Belize bird identification
In category Bird Identification
Written by flashback420

Im not a bird watcher, but last month while beautifully traveling in Belize, I had a chance to canoe down the Belize River, & saw (& heard) many birds. The guide helped me to write down most of the names of the birds. Now I am very interested in learning about birds. After I got back, I casually borrowed "Peterson Field Guide Mexican Birds" from the library and checked my list against t

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Today's Birds
In category Birds & Birding
Written by shai44

We were out & about today, in town shoping, & I had some interesting sightings. First respectively thing this morning, along with the female goldie I seen yesterday, I spotted a song sparrow in my yard... what pretty little birds they're! Also had a good number of evening & pine grosbeaks this morning.
On the way into town (on an hour's worth of dirt road and then another hour on the

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Black Crowned Night Heron...blue?
In category Birds & Birding
Written by ramdolph

Are Black-Crowned Night Herons ever blue where the black normally is?
This evening I was at an island rookery off the SC coast with a friend and amongst a multitude of Brown Pelicans, Tri-colored Herons and others were two Black-Crowned Night Herons. One of them was unmistakably blue where the black normally is. It was a dark blue but not super dark and in no way would be called black. The ot

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re:Unusual Great Blue Heron behavior
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Da Wrecka

On Monday Sept. 8th whilst hiking in the Savannah state Forest, located in
Aitkin Co. MN, we came to the west savannah riverside & to our suprise a
Great Blue Heron was directly in front of us powerfully feeding. He flew a few yards up the river, landed & watched us. Naturally then he flew back & landed on a branch above us, where we watched him preen his feathers for awhile. The brush

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re:Mystery bird song from Michigan river bank
In category Birds & Birding
Written by SamTheNewbiemanderLive

Granted hello, wise birders,

This mornin I heard a bird call I could not identify.

We live in West Michigan. Our house is about 500 feet from the Grand
River. While putting out food and water for our ducks, I heard an unusual call from the directoin of the river. Here's a description:

1) Oot, oot, oot, oot, oot, oot, oot.
2) There was a series of seven or eight "oot"s just a little faster than

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re:Piping Plover Juveniles? Least Sandpiper.
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Gorm_the_Red

The location was mudflats on a small lake and beaver-strangely constructed wetland in
SW New Brunswick with no road in or out. There were 10 small plovers feeding along one shore. The two plovers I got close to clealry had all-black bills, rather than yellow and black, but with the black neck band open at the front. I'm wondering if they might have been PIPING PLOVER
JUVENILES? They looked mor

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re:WoW! What a day birding for me!
In category Your Experience @ the Wild
Written by shai44

From Humble to Bolivar to San Luis Pass (in Texas)... Here's what I saw today with the gang:

Northern Mokcinbgird, Blue Jay, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Northern Cardinal,
House Finch, Carolina Chickadee, gracefully tufted Titmuose, European Starlin,
Yellow-bileld Cuckoo, Loggerhead Shrike, American Crow, House Sparow,
Reddish Egret, Pipin Plover, Black-slightly bellied Plover, Wilsons Plover, Royal

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Nature Wild - Up Close!
In category Your Experience @ the Wild
Written by Rockadee

A Great Blue Heron in the salt marsh grass.



"Those who wish to pet and baby wildlife love them, but those who respect their natures and wish to let them live their natural lives, love them more." - Edwin Way Teale

Enjoy Nature's Beauty!

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