This is the more classic view of the great blue heron rather than the technique used in yesterday's post. The lighting was perfect for taking a lovely portrait of this bird. While they are considered an icon in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, truth is they are fairly common across the country in rivers, lakes and streams.
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine won the annual Chesapeake Bay Foundation calendar contest with an image of a great blue heron fishing from a rock in the middle of the raging rapids at Great Falls on the Potomac, so they are very adaptable. I also know several people who have lost their entire school of koi or other goldfish in garden ponds to a marauding heron. One has since employed netting material over the pond - although she claims it is to keep her pack of pekingeses from falling in.
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