{"id":9700,"date":"2023-09-18T20:39:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T03:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=9700"},"modified":"2023-09-18T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T03:39:54","slug":"great-blue-heron-action-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/18\/great-blue-heron-action-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron Action Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday afternoon, we headed down to Reynold’s Landing on the South Platte River, hoping to do some birding after watching the football game. It was pretty quiet along the river, with maybe 3 groups of people tubing down the river. We spotted the usual night herons and snowy egret. After most of the tubers had passed, we spotted a Great Blue Heron. I had been wanting to capture some different behavior of this fabulous bird. So I just waited to see what happened. The heron was perched or a log, gazing up an down the river.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Great Blue Heron Sequence, No. 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

All of a sudden, the heron appeared to take flight.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Great Blue Heron Sequence, No. 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

But it was just one big hop…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Great Blue Heron Sequence, No. 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To the other end of the log!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Great Blue Heron Sequence, No. 4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

And then landing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Great Blue Heron Sequence, No. 5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To resume gazing downstream!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Great Blue Heron Sequence, No. 6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Even though we spent just over an hour at the river, we had fun watching just a few birds. The Great Blue made my day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon, we headed down to Reynold’s Landing on the South Platte River, hoping to do some birding after watching the football game. It was pretty quiet along the river, with maybe 3 groups of people tubing down the river. We spotted the usual night herons and snowy egret. After most of the tubers had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1462,1876,1878,1877,25,1020],"class_list":["post-9700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-hop","tag-jump","tag-reynolds-landing-2","tag-river","tag-south-platte"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t