Ugly Bird, Harry can you ID?

[ginger_55]

http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/14533071-L.jpg

Harry, do you know, of course you do, I will get a book, if I can't find mine by next week, but do you know what kind of bird this is, besides ugly and in an ugly environment. He was so well camoflaged I have named him Waldo.

Yes, it was all shot RAW.

Where he stayed til it was really dark, that is why the photo is so bad, the top one. It was dark, the eye is defined, but there was not enough light to give the photo any color. I have figured out that even if I had a tripod, I need light to take a photo, the light has to be somewhere.

The one below is where I first saw him, that was at the end of a 300 lens that had no idea what to focus on, and I couldn't do much better.

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http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/14533626-L.jpg

[Harryb]

That ain't no ugly bird that's the Great Blue Heron. Its body length is 46-52 inches and its wingspan goes 77-82 inches. BTW my development where I live is called Herons Landing.

Harry

[GSPeP]

Aha, that's what they are called in english. I know the name in dutch (reiger), but just wanted to look it up in my english dictionary.

In the area where I live (near the river Schelde) are a lot of herons. As well as the blue as the grey ones. Ever since fish returned to the river, the population of herons grows every year.

This location of this pictures is about fifteen minutes on foot of my house. One morning my brother counted twenty of them.

http://gspep.smugmug.com/photos/14107899-L.jpg

[GraphyFotoz]

Green Heron and the infamious Pathonatory Warbler!!

Now the Pathornatory Warbler is a RARE sight here in upstate NY.
To get a photo to verify it would be something!!