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Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias

Photo by Shawn Wilkes
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Field Notes

Description:

The heron walked a little bit along the pond edge, though seemed quite calm and uncaring of how close it was to people. It stayed quite still for a long period of time.

Habitat:

Unknown for sure. It was found in Beacon Hill Park, standing on the edge of one pond.

Notes:

Appeared to be quite used to people. Myself and another photographer managed to get fairly close when we approached it slowly. Despite it not seeming to care, distance was still kept just in case.

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Comments (3)

Lovely spotting! It would make a great addition to the mission Breeding Bird of BC! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/9990374
Nice photos! This spotting is perfect for the new Biodiversity of Vancouver Island mission, http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/19215003 !
Great capture Shawn Wilkes ,congrats, thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :-) I hope you like the site us much we do,there are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you have all the "rules" of Project Noah :-) You have also a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from our best specialists in the diferents areas and also storys of wildlife "adventures" from our most knowened users. There are also the chats for elp in the id process and to comment your's and other's spottings. Attention when join local missions http://www.projectnoah.org/missions they have a range that is in the mission map,see first that before join.you only can submit spotting in a mission if the photos where taken inside the mission range. Enjoy your self,see you arround :-)

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