DAY FIVE : THE GREAT BLUE HERONS – THE 7-DAY NATURE CHALLENGE

I feel honored to be chosen by Cee Neuner  to participate in the Seven Day Nature Challenge.

The challenge asks I post one photo per day for a week. The subject can be anything, as long as it comes from the natural world. About 90% of my work is landscape or wildlife photography. I do side trips to architecture and portraits –and I’m always trying to get a good picture of my dogs — but overall, there’s more of Autumn, the Blackstone River, water fowl, Arizona, and sunrise and sunset.

On this fifth day, herons take center stage. In this case, the Great Blue Heron, many of which make their home in this valley.

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Cee and I are acquainted with most of the same groups of photo bloggers and pretty much anyone I can think to nominate has already been nominated. If by some quirk of luck, you have been overlooked, please participate. Consider yourself nominated and chosen! Especially if these are the kind of pictures you usually post, it’s no stretch to just post them as part of the challenge.

Come one, come all!



Categories: #Birds, #BlackstoneRiver, #gallery, #Photography, Blackstone Valley, Challenges, Nature

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22 replies

  1. Sensational photos, not a surprise knowing you stood behind the lens! 🙂

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  2. Stunning photo of the Great Blue Herons… Wonderful for nature. 😀

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    • Thanks, Cee. We’ve got a lot of birds around here, especially the long-legged wading birds. Ducks. Swans. Egrets. Herons. And a lot of hawks and eagles. When there are storms along the coast, the seagulls come to visit.

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  3. The Herons have a very interesting anatomy. With that long winding neck you would wonder how they can move so gracefully and yet that is part of their grace.
    Leslie

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  4. The last picture is amazing! I am really liking this challenge you all are doing!

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    • I had to be almost as patient as the heron while he waited for his fish. He stood there for nearly an hour, not moving a feather … and suddenly, he moved and he had his fish. Gave us a lot of time to take pictures 🙂

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  5. He’s a beauty Marilyn!

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  6. Lovely shots, so glad you took AND shared them! Heron-watching restores the weary-of-life, makes it new.

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    • I love the herons. They are so big. Rather majestic, especially the boys with their head plumage. We used to have more egrets, but the herons are more aggressive and have pushed them out … as the swans have mostly pushed out the Canada geese locally.

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  7. Wow. Incredible. They just keep getting better and better.

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  8. Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
    IT’LL BE PHOTO FUN FROM HERE-ON!

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