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A Young Great Blue’s Meal
I had been watching one of the Great Blue Herons at our local wetland preserves a few weeks ago; she only had one baby, which is a bit unusual for the species. I watched as she built her nest high in...
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The Eyes Have It
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language. ―Martin Buber In preparation of an upcoming post on Black-crowned Night Herons, and in honor of Halloween, I give you the lovely and brilliant...
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They Mostly Come Out at Night… Mostly: The Black-crowned Night Herons
For my fellow sci-fi aficionados, it’s a lot prettier than the critter Newt refers to in the Aliens franchise…. Black-crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) are the most widespread herons in the...
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Eyes of the Everglades
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson A Black-crowned Night Heron surveys his magnificent Everglades empire against an azure...
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Sweet One
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. —Ralph Waldo Emerson An always lovely and vibrant Tricolored Heron (Louisiana Heron) peeks out from amid the vegetation of our...
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Don’t Mess with the GBH
It’s nesting time now in our protected wetlands, and a really fun time — the biggest and smallest waders are settled into their annual nests (some of them, including the Great Blue Herons, return to...
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Wetland Smarties
Usually our Green herons are very shy and difficult to spot, patient and motionless as they are in our wetlands — their signature kuk or kyow calls are heard more often. [Click here to listen to their...
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Night Flight of the Night Heron
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. —Mary Oliver Always a welcoming sight in our wetlands, the Black-crowned Night Heron appears at dusk, ready for a night of marauding. I...
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Monday Morning Hair
A Tricolored (or Louisiana) Heron in breeding plumage shakes it all off, with the start of a new week, in undisguised fabulousness in our protected wetlands. While I say “Monday Morning Hair,” this is...
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Cantankerous Puffs of Adorable
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. —John Muir We’re finally getting drenched with some much-needed rains in South Florida —...
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