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Photo of the Day | July 2025
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Clever! Next it should be dispensing alcohol 😊
Doesn't look like Alfred, but like a juvenile heron . Really beautiful photo!
Another shot at the ”turning torso” in Malmö Sweden.
Maybe this is a bit cleaner with fewer distractions than the other one?
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Thank you! Oh, actually it IS Alfred, a mature GBH -- he just had his wings and body at a very awkward angle in this image. He looks really skinny here and I can see why you asked about this. The image that I posted is only one of a series of photos that I shot of him the same day. He's been keeping me busy the last month or so! However, I don't want to bore everyone with posting images of him all the time, though, and I try to vary what I share in each day's POTD and in the Bird Photos thread on here.
I am lucky to have a lot of time to spend observing and photographing Alfred. In fact, I'm still sorting through the latest lot which were shot only yesterday.... He managed to surprise me once again!
I don't think he is a juvie GBH because of the way he presents (as I am watching him and in other images I have shot) with the full feathered chest and such..... I agree, though, that he is probably still quite young, even though having matured into adulthood.
Of course there is the possibility that there is more than one GBH hanging around in our neighborhood, and that is something I've had in mind while shooting and later reviewing images in the post-processing stage. Never can be quite sure here. In general, GBH are solitary creatures who tend to feed alone and of course they all look a whole lot alike as well!
There have been many GBH through the years here where I live, and a while ago I started to just to call them all "Alfred...." They're all "Great" Blue Herons......hence, my name for them: "Alfred the Great!" (Borrowing the name from the UK and its history....)
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To my surprise, yesterday during a pretty vigorous thunderstorm, Alfred came flying by and then landed on the roof of one of the townhouses across the lake from me. Of course I just had to go out on my deck and shoot photos, being careful not to get either myself or the camera too wet. Thankfully the rain had slowed down quite a bit, although there was still thunder and the occasional flash of lightning. My guess is that he probably was enjoying the cooling-off that the rain was providing after the fierce "heat dome" / heatwave with which this area and others around the US and the world have been dealing this past week.
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Lucky you to have the "show" so close where you live!Thank you! Oh, actually it IS Alfred, a mature GBH -- he just had his wings and body at a very awkward angle in this image. He looks really skinny here and I can see why you asked about this. The image that I posted is only one of a series of photos that I shot of him the same day. He's been keeping me busy the last month or so! However, I don't want to bore everyone with posting images of him all the time, though, and I try to vary what I share in each day's POTD and in the Bird Photos thread on here.
I am lucky to have a lot of time to spend observing and photographing Alfred. In fact, I'm still sorting through the latest lot which were shot only yesterday.... He managed to surprise me once again!
I don't think he is a juvie GBH because of the way he presents (as I am watching him and in other images I have shot) with the full feathered chest and such..... I agree, though, that he is probably still quite young, even though having matured into adulthood.
Of course there is the possibility that there is more than one GBH hanging around in our neighborhood, and that is something I've had in mind while shooting and later reviewing images in the post-processing stage. Never can be quite sure here. In general, GBH are solitary creatures who tend to feed alone and of course they all look a whole lot alike as well!
There have been many GBH through the years here where I live, and a while ago I started to just to call them all "Alfred...." They're all "Great" Blue Herons......hence, my name for them: "Alfred the Great!" (Borrowing the name from the UK and its history....)
Ah, but it looks like She did; well; and entirely complete
Thank you for sharing!
It's really difficult for me to 'read' birds . . .
. . . Alfred looks a little resigned to the fact (but satisfied). Yet--for all I know--he had an argument with his girlfriend that morning, and was stewing-on this circumstance, cursing the rain....
In Glasgow? People would just sit under it like a young bird, with their mouth open and never cross the road...
The Caledonian Canal. Fort Augustus, Scotland. May, 2023.
At the Pioneer Florida Museum - this train was used to hall the massive Cypress trees to the mills.
I was out for a quick stroll around our complex and grabbed this shot with my 16PM using Project Indigo. Rabbits don't typically move the needle for me as they are everywhere here, but this was one of the rare few that just sat there looking at me without bolting.
One of the many old barns I stopped and shot on my way back to town yesterday after my quest for sunrise photos. Love the light they are bathed in. ~
