Sunday night a Facebook friend posted a picture of a Green Heron mentioning it was the first she had seen in a usually popular place for them along the Norwottuck Rail Trail in Poor Farm Swamp. I hadn't seen one all summer, which is a disappointment as it is my favorite heron of the two I see here. So yesterday morning I went to see if I could find it.
Green Heron-Butorides virescens
I found it! 
I didn't have to search for very long. It was in the first pond you come to when leaving the parking lot. In the dim light it looked like a flipped lily pad, so small and hunkered; it was just a shape in the distance. With my naked eyes I couldn't be sure but on the back of the camera it was obvious. After making several images I went down the trail frogging and it was still there on the way back to the car when I made this image in brighter, although still dim, light. This is, more or less, the exact same pose that my friend captured 12 hours earlier so it obviously spent the night on the same branch and it seems in the same position. I guess it was the perfect port in the storm, so to speak.
No comments:
Post a Comment