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Great Blue Herons and Cranes

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  • Keeping Watch

    Keeping Watch

    An adult Great Blue Heron guards the nest while the other adult is off hunting for food. Its good to see the pair have been so far successful in producing young but this is the only nesting pair this year in what only a couple of years ago was a thriving colony, hope for the future maybe but this colony (if you can call it that now) is in desperate trouble.

  • Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    The heron shows its sleek lines while flying over Big Lake. Lois Hole Park, St Albert.

  • Taking flight

    Taking flight

    A very skittish Great Blue Heron on the Big Lake shoreline. Lois Hole Park, St Albert.

  • Blue flight

    Blue flight

    Great Blue Heron on the Big Lake shoreline. Lois Hole Park, St Albert.

  • Setting up shop

    Setting up shop

    A single pair of Great Blue Herons getting ready to nest close to where there used to be a good sized heronry that was abandoned last year. Canada Geese have taken over most of the nesting sites. Sturgeon County

  • Hopefull sign?

    Hopefull sign?

    Last year the heronry was abandoned save one bird that I was able to observe, today this Great Blue Heron was joined by two others, they flew off but maybe a sign of better things to come. Sturgeon County.

  • Sandhill Cranes

    Sandhill Cranes

    Sandhill cranes fly overhead on their fall migration, Sturgeon County.

  • Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    Fishing in Nadeau pond near Big Lake

  • Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    On the shoreline of Nadeau pond near Big Lake

  • Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    Taking flight over Nadeau pond near Big Lake

  • Number One

    Number One

    Being the first, and as it turned out the only, GBH of the 2018 season

  • Evening flight

    Evening flight

    A recently fledged GBH flies off up river in the deepening gloom of just prior to sunset

  • Something of interest

    Something of interest

    A juvenile GBH takes a closer look from its perch on a log in the Sturgeon River

  • Fishing from a log

    Fishing from a log

    A juvenile GBH looking for something to eat while walking a log in he Sturgeon River

  • A closer look

    A closer look

    A juvenile GBH takes a closer look at a possible food item in the Sturgeon River near St Albert, Alberta

  • Out and about

    Out and about

    A recently fledged GBH trying out some hunting from a log in the Sturgeon River

  • Fledglings

    Fledglings

    A fledgling GBH demonstrates its prowess at landing to its siblings

  • Steady!

    Steady!

    A fledgling Great Blue Heron precariously lands on a branch near its home nest with its siblings looking on

  • Look at me !

    Look at me !

    A newly fledged Great Blue Heron giving flight demonstrations to its siblings

  • Fly by

    Fly by

    After flying around me in a great circle, which included a pass in front of the sun, this GBH came in to take a good look

  • Partial Eclispse

    Partial Eclispse

    This GBH flew in front of the sun as I was tracking it in high speed mode, nearly fried my eyeball - that hurt, don't try it at home!

  • Balancing act

    Balancing act

    The colony is down to one guardian whose job has been made just a little more difficult as it tries not to get blown off its perch by the high wind we have experienced over the last few days.

  • That's it for now!

    That's it for now!

    Having just regurgitated into the nest to provide for the young ones a Great Blue Heron flies off to find the next meal, the whole operation supervised by it's mate who is on guard duty today

  • Protective measures

    Protective measures

    The Great Blue Heron took protective measures as I moved away from some coyotes howling in the bush at my rear and I seemed to have got a little too close for it's comfort, it settled very soon after and I departed on good terms (I think)

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    Blue flight
    Setting up shop
    Hopefull sign?