Conowingo on a Fall Morning – Part 2
/Continuing our short field trip/road trip to Conowingo (part 1 post is here)….
Today’s post focuses on the Great Blue Heron that was relatively close to our viewing location (in the lower left of the image below).
It stayed on the same rock for quite some time. I took portrait shots when it moved any part of its body. It is a bird that was born this year…just getting in some adult feathers. I think my favorite of the portraits is the one with beak pointed down…a rather stern-loooking image. Something caught the bird’s attention away from the water at some point and it turned toward the rocky embankment.
It looked around and it became obvious that the bird was going to move.
It didn’t fly….it started walking. Note the big toes as it takes a step (use the arrows to move back and forth between the 2 images).
And then it was off….making it’s way to a new vantage point – where it stayed until we left. It must have gotten a fish earlier because it seemed to be observing the scene rather than actively fishing.
Unique Activities for Yesterday:
Hawai’i Island Festival of the Birds. The festival starts on 10/15 and registration is free (site to register is here). I registered weeks ago but checked to make sure I had all the info I needed to find the festival on the 1st day. The videos are pre-recorded and made available on the day they are listed on the calendar of events. I except to see birds that I have never seen before! When I visited Hawai’i in 2015, I was so overwhelmed by everything else that was new to me that I only noticed a few birds. I’d like to go for the festival some year.
