Thanks Bill. That seems to be the consensus. Now I wonder what became of the bird I shot in flight. Never saw him rise from the river, so he must have been in hiding. I believe he had to be a Great Blue Heron -- perhaps not all that immature.
Paul On Aug 5, 2013, at 2:56 PM, Bill Sawyer <wsaw...@twmi.rr.com> wrote: > Paul, > > I think #2 is an immature Green Heron. They're fairly common around here. > > http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/green_heron/id > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist > Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:35 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESOs Juvenile Great Blue Heron > > A good guess, Ann, but the Bittern has brown wings and no crown of feathers > -- as far as I can tell. And I did follow the bird that I shot in flight. > I'm sure he landed in the water. I was convinced at first that this was a > different bird, but after looking at some pics of juvenile herons on the > Audubon pages, I think this is the same bird. Could b wrong of course. > > > On Aug 5, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > >> I think the second one is a Bittern, Paul ann >> >> On 8/5/2013 10:21, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> This somewhat immature Heron was standing in a shallow Rouge River feeder > stream in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. As I approached it took flight. I > followed it downstream a couple hundred feet and saw another bird that > appeared to be a different species standing on a log (unfortunately, against > a busy background). He had a crown of feathers standing straight up and > brown markings on his neck. After studying the Audubon guide this morning, > I've come to the conclusion that they're one and the same. Herons all have > that crown of feathers, but this is the first time I've seen them extended. >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17486421&size=lg >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17486422&size=lg >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
