Great Blue Heron at Sunset
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Great Blue Heron at Sunset
Artist
Catherine Sherman
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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"Great Blue Heron at Sunset" by Catherine Sherman.
At sunset, I was photographing shore birds at Money Bayou where it empties onto Money Bayou Beach on the Panhandle of Florida, when this Great Blue Heron seemed to drop out of the sky right next to me. He stood there in the rosy light until he saw me taking his photograph, and then he flew off.
The great blue heron is the largest North American heron (Ardea herodias). It's a wading bird found near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America as well as the Caribbean Sea and the Galapagos Islands.
The Great Blue Heron has a head-to-tail length of 36–54 inches (91–137 cm), a wingspan of 66–79 inches (167–201 cm), a height of 45–54 inches (115–138 cm), and a weight of 4.0–7.9 pounds (1.82–3.6 kg).
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March 2nd, 2020
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