#greenheron — Public Fediverse posts

A master of patience in the marsh. 🌿 This Green Heron was perfectly still on a log this morning at Smith Oaks, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. 🪶✨
📍 High Island, Texas
🗓️ Apr 18, 2026
🕒 8:15 AM
📸 @canonusa EOS R6 Mark III + RF 200-800
⚙️ 800mm | f/9 | 1/60 | ISO 3200
#GreenHeron #TexasBirds #SmithOaks #ShotOnCanon #CanonR6MarkIII #WildlifeWithCanon #Birding #Wildlife

Early Morning Green Heron by Debra Martz
I arrived when the entrance to the nature center opened, walked through the butterfly garden, and as I headed to start the boardwalk, a Green Heron stood ready to begin its day. It was in pose with the lifted leg, ready to fish from the water below.

https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/early-morning-green-heron-debra-martz.html

#GreenHeron #heron #posed #readyfortakeoff #bird @DebraMartz #giftideas #birds #aves #avian #BirdLovers #featheredFriends #ornithology #photography #PhotographyIsArt #BuyIntoArt

#GreenHeron #SwallowTailedKite #MonkParakeet #parakeet #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #Nikon

Intriguing #GreenHeron Perched Gracefully on a Tree Branch

///flies.moment.less [what3words]

#LakeTemescal rarely disappoints this time of year. Many birds stop here during their winter jouirneys.

#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Bird #AnimalPhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Sony #SonyAlpha #Mirrorless #A6000 #18200mm #Wednesday

Intriguing #GreenHeron Perched Gracefully on a Tree Branch

///flies.moment.less [what3words]

#LakeTemescal rarely disappoints this time of year. Many birds stop here during their winter jouirneys.

#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Bird #AnimalPhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Sony #SonyAlpha #Mirrorless #A6000 #18200mm #Wednesday

Intriguing #GreenHeron Perched Gracefully on a Tree Branch

///flies.moment.less [what3words]

#LakeTemescal rarely disappoints this time of year. Many birds stop here during their winter jouirneys.

#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Bird #AnimalPhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Sony #SonyAlpha #Mirrorless #A6000 #18200mm #Wednesday

Intriguing #GreenHeron Perched Gracefully on a Tree Branch

///flies.moment.less [what3words]

#LakeTemescal rarely disappoints this time of year. Many birds stop here during their winter jouirneys.

#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Bird #AnimalPhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Sony #SonyAlpha #Mirrorless #A6000 #18200mm #Wednesday

Intriguing #GreenHeron Perched Gracefully on a Tree Branch

///flies.moment.less [what3words]

#LakeTemescal rarely disappoints this time of year. Many birds stop here during their winter jouirneys.

#Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Bird #AnimalPhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Sony #SonyAlpha #Mirrorless #A6000 #18200mm #Wednesday

#birds #boodooBirds #boodooVids #BrooklynBotanicGarden #GreenHeron

Green Heron at Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, Barnstable MA 09/11/24 #greenheron #greenherons #birds #bird #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #Nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #longpasturewildlifesanctuary #massaudubon #barnstable #massachusetts #newengland #capecod #capecodphotography #capecodlife #Heron #herons

Green Heron. Descanso Gardens, La Canada-Flintridge, California, USA. September, 2024.
#descansogardens #lacanadaflintridge
#heron #herons #greenheron #greenherons
#bird #birds #birdphotography
#nature #naturephotography
#omds_om_photo #omdigitalsolutions #om1 #mzuiko300mmf4

Green Heron at Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, Barnstable 08/31/24 #greenheron #greenherons #birds #bird #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #Nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #longpasturewildlifesanctuary #massaudubon #barnstable #massachusetts #newengland #capecod #capecodphotography #capecodlife #Heron #herons

Adult and juvenile (recently fledged) Green Herons today.
Marine Nature Study Area, Oceanside, NY
#nature #NaturePhotography #birds #Wildlife #naturecommunity #BirdsOfMastodon #birdphotography #birding #biodiversity
#saltmarsh #GreenHeron #Ardeidae

Green Heron in Falmouth MA 06/12/24 #greenheron #greenherons #birds #bird #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #Nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Falmouth #massachusetts #newengland #capecod #capecodphotography #capecodlife #Heron #herons

Doing the Greenie stretch...

I was motivated to dig a bit deeper, so I picked up the text I used when I taught a comparative vertebrate anatomy course some years ago (which got a herpetology guy interested in avian anatomy), and read that birds have heterocoelous cervical vertebrae, that is vertebrae with saddle-shaped joints at both ends that permit the neck to flex vertically and laterally, without compressing the spinal chord. According to this interesting blog (https://willoughbyart.blogspot.com/.../the-neck-is-lie.html), Ardeids in particular, also have numerous elongate vertebrae that function like spear-throwing sticks, permitting herons and egrets to make those forceful lunges at their prey. And unlike the larger members of the group, Green Herons, like other small Ardeids, have "lying necks," in which plumage conceals the s-curve, permitting the compact, streamlined contour of the bird when the neck is retracted. This is believed to be due to the greater need for smaller members of the family to conceal themselves from predators.
MNSA, Oceanside, NY
5.24.24
#nature #NaturePhotography
#birds #Wildlife #naturecommunity #photography
#BirdsOfMastodon
#birdphotography#birding #biodiversity #GreenHeron #Ardeidae

Emilia always tried to keep a low profile when leaving work early.
#photography #fotografía #fotografie #greenheron #alreadygone #worksucks #keepingalowprofile #birds #birdphotography #Nature #naturephotography #YouDidntSeeMe
#LauraCochranPhotography

Midsummer in retrospect, in Brooklyn and upstate: a Couch's/tropical kingbird, a green heron, petulant indigo bunting fledglings, and an Eastern phoebe with a cricket

For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/midsummer-in-retrospect

#birds #birding #birdphotography #couchstropicalkingbird #greenheron #indigobunting #easternphoebe

An Acadian flycatcher, a double-crested cormorant gulping down a still-flailing fish, four green heron fledglings, and a house wren fledgling in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 22 June and 4 July 2023

For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/independence

#acadianflycatcher #doublecrestedcormorant #greenheron #housewren #birds #birding #birdphotography #prospectpark #brooklynbirding #nikonD500 #sigma150600

This gorgeous #GreenHeron only gifts us with her presence once a week or so, and usually only for a few minutes. Today she's been hanging out by the #tamarind tree for an hour so I reckon it's time to make her #mastodon famous. #birds #guadeloupe