A great blue heron in a pond. Baby Onesie

Widespread and familiar (though often called "crane"), the largest heron in North America. Often seen standing silently along inland rivers or lakeshores, or flying high overhead, with slow wingbeats, its head hunched back onto its shoulders. Highly adaptable, it thrives around all kinds of waters from subtropical mangrove swamps to desert rivers to the coastline of southern Alaska. With its variable diet it is able to spend the winter farther north than most herons, even in areas where most waters freeze. A form in southern Florida (called "Great White Heron") is slightly larger and entirely white.

A passionate nature and travel photographer loving it more and more as I travel the world. The more I travel the more I am in love with our planet and hoping and praying that we don't take it for granted and preserve the beauty for future generations. For the record I have visited all seven continents. Now we are doing country by country. Not sure if I will be able to see all that I want to see and experience in my life time. "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence " Ansel Adams. " A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, there by, a true expression about what feels...