“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane. Many wildlife viewers do ...

Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

Crane Hollow Road, 1 mile southwest of Hygiene, provides a view of about 50 nests in a great blue heron rookery, or more precisely, heronry. Massive nests made of sticks, up to 4 feet in diameter and ...

Photographer’s description: “Just a hop, skip and a jump. I stopped by the Elliott Bay Marina and found a pair of great blue herons doing what can only be some sort of a mating dance. I was able to ...

Social systems of great blue herons vary dramatically, from solitary nests to large heronries, and some heronries include nests of great egrets and cattle egrets Crane Hollow Road, one mile southwest ...