As promised yesterday, two pictures of the Peak Forest Canal.
It was a pleasantly mild spring morning and I saw a heron fly across the canal from the animal shelter at the end of Raglan Street.
I stopped and took a couple of photographs from some distance away before walking towards it. The heron ignored me for a while and I took two more from a little closer. As I got to about fifty feet away it took off and flew around the bend.
11 comments:
What a beautiful bird! Glad you were able to get so close.
Champions Gate has some wonderful images of herons and I always tell them how envious I am. Same here. Canals and the elusive heron. Some days you just want to be another daily blog, today I'm Hyde.
wow You are so lucky
This bird is wonderful!
Amazing place!
Léia
Well done Gerald... when I was down there last week I never got a sniff of one... yet my brother saw one by the Green Bridge at the bottom of Apethorn Road.
Great posting on Old Hyde... if you come across anything of interest from that link will you let me know.. :O)
Well done to get such a fine specimen. I must visit a place where I have seen some before.
I'm still looking for the first Great Blues of the season in my neck of the woods - I think they're hiding from the crazy lady with the camera....
This is a lovely spot! The same heron species (I think) can also be found at the small river that runs through the downtown park here at Oeiras; they are gorgeous and big!
Snap - I posted one of those birds, too, this week. Well, they look similar to me. My ornithological knowledge is not that extensive and I just tagged it as egret.
Somehow or other I missed this...I am glad you referred back to it. Great shots.
Great capture Gerald.
takes me back the last heron I saw was on Lock Long IN sCOTLAND oops
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