"When the heron takes to flight, what a change in size and appearance! ....There go two great undulating wings pinned together, but the body and neck must have been left behind somewhere. " Thoreau
Sept. 6, 2007: This Great Blue Heron was taken at Parker River Wildlife Sanctuary in Plum Island, Massachusetts. It was one of the more successful shots taken by me of a bird on the wing. Its slower wing rate and great body gave me a fighting chance to to capture its majestic swoop across the meadow grasses where it settled into an intertidal pool where a cluster of birders where eyeing a Says Phoebe.
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