Green Heron Parent Mother - Canvas Giclee Painting Sandhill Cranes The pristinely white Great Egret

The pristinely white Great Egret gets even more dressed up for mating season

Feathers starting to gain color and they have a youth vigor

Sometimes this does not result with offspring

Barbara Fallenbaum's Giclee Painting of a TriColored Heron

Green Heron Parent Mother - Canvas Giclee Painting Sandhill Cranes The pristinely white Great EgretPainting of Green Heron Mother. This small heron is solitary most season and often somewhat secretive. Seen in the open, it often flicks its tail nervously, raises and lowers it crest. It is a striking bird with a velvet green back, chestnut body and a dark cap often raised into a short crest. I was fortunate the summer of 2020 to have a pair lay their eggs in my backyard. First I found two eggs on the ground, then they disappeared. Over the next