Female Great Blue Heron In Mating Plumage Original Oil Painting Stilt Incubation is by both parents

Incubation is by both parents

You can tell it is enjoying life

All of their nesting colony watch out for each other

A fledgling is a young bird that has grown enough to acquire its flight feathers and is preparing to leave the nest and care for itself

Female Great Blue Heron In Mating Plumage Original Oil Painting Stilt Incubation is by both parentsPainting of a majestic Great Blue Heron. Great Blue Herons are the largest heron in North America. Often seen standing silently along inland rivers, lakeshores, and coastal waters. Spotted this one across the cove standing on a neighbors tree that over hangs the water. It looked like a young one coming into its first mating season. I had not seen her on my cove before. We have a beautiful male that inhabits our cove and he usually chases other Great